Paul Bibilo <peb(a)delcam.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
 Trying to do a cvs update on the Pyrenean tree I get the following
 error. 
 cvs [server aborted]: cannot open directory
/usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/comm/irchat: No such file or directory 
irchat was removed due to Brain Damage(TM)[1]
Did you get around this CVS problem?
When I run into problems like this I start editing files underneath
CVS/ to remove the offending filenames.  Presumably there's a better way
to handle deletions.
Footnotes: 
[1]  Brain Damage is a registered trademark of the United States
Government.