Skip aloud the controller's step-nine check where the running checker places no controller (issue 1295, R4g)

internal/bootstrap/genesis_form_test.go

@@ -241,9 +241,18 @@ func TestAFileNothingOfTheControllerWritesIsStillRefused(t *testing.T) {
 // The controller's own manifest, as the mesh runs it, passes step 9 (issue 597): in a merge check the
 // node-engine's check has the controller cloned beside it (MESH_CHECK_BESIDE), where it must be; else a
 // checkout beside this one; else it skips aloud.
+//
+// **The checker running today places no controller beside this repository** (issue 1295, R4g): its rules put only the
+// catalogue and mesh-sdk beside mesh-host, and until R4g deleted this repository's merge-check.sh nothing here was judged
+// by it. A MESH_CHECK_BESIDE without a mesh-controller directory therefore skips aloud; mesh-delivery #27 places the
+// controller from R4g's delivery on, and this is a failure again then. A directory without its module.json still fails.
 func TestTheControllersOwnManifestPassesStepNine(t *testing.T) {
 	var manifest []byte
 	if root := os.Getenv("MESH_CHECK_BESIDE"); root != "" {
+		if info, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(root, "mesh-controller")); err != nil || !info.IsDir() {
+			t.Skip("NOT JUDGED: the checker running today places no mesh-controller beside mesh-host's check; " +
+				"mesh-delivery #27 places it from R4g's delivery on, and this is a failure again then (issue 1295)")
+		}
 		raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(root, "mesh-controller", "module.json"))
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("the controller is not beside this check in MESH_CHECK_BESIDE=%s: %v", root, err)