Question about subversion/tests/cmdline/tree_conflict_tests.py:ensure_tree_conflict()

subversion/tests/cmdline/tree_conflict_tests.py:ensure_tree_conflict() contains:

      except svntest.Failure:
        # Reason for catching exceptions here is to be able to see progress
        # during early development when a large number of sub-tests often
        # fail. When the feature is stable, the "try" and "except" can go away.
        (exc_type, exc_val) = sys.exc_info()[:2]
        print "EXCEPTION for", str(inc_action), "onto", str(loc_action) + ": ",
        for x in traceback.format_exception_only(exc_type, exc_val):
          sys.stdout.write(x)
        print

Is this code still needed?

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