Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I think "cannot be copied" is an exaggeration

It seems that the purpose is to allow local modifications to Modules/Setup. 
Otherwise, I don't know why the Makefile would print an elaborate message when 
the file exists.
If this possibility is never used then, true, we can remove the elaborate 
message and overwrite the existing file instead.

> Not sure why this had high priority - if anybody wants to fix it,
> please go ahead.

How do we fix it? I don't think we have access to the sequence of operations 
executed by buildbots.

It is high priority because this caused a mess on the buildbots and forced us 
to revert some perfectly good checkins. I hesitated between high and critical, 
because infrastructure bugs like this are actively detrimental to development 
activites.

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priority: normal -> high

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