From 0bb299165344129dcdc0891233f3799ca258d4a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:11:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add news note

---
 Misc/NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ce5a1d21163..7c82dbee9f1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
+  mercurial is not installed.
+
 - Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
   the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
   raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.