Reported by Unknown User, Apr 14, 2004

(This entry was imported from the savannah tracker, original 
location: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?8560)

The RCS `state' field holds needed information for cvs.
In particular, the field's value is "dead" when the
revision in question is dead -- i.e., has been "cvs rm"d
and then committed.

Currently this shows up because deleted files will reappear
when checking out an imported repository.