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relnotes: skip the test if the source repository is not readable

The test want to run the relnot extension, with the tested mercurial, on the
original repository. This is not always possible (e.g. when running with --pure
and the repository use zstd for example). So we skip the test in this case.

This directory is meant to cache artifacts useful for tests (such as bundle).

Those artifacts need to be cached because they are slow to regenerate on each
test but too large to be tracked within the repository. They are not expected
to change between each run and can be cached.

The `./scripts/` contains code to generate the artifact while the `cache`
directory contains resulting artifact.