Package: mercurial Version: 1.9-1 Severity: normal "hg clone" fails with the error below. I tried several different online archive with the same result. I was running python2.6. I then installed python 2.7. It still failed with the same error.
melanie@sheeva:~$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/ellislab/codeigniter-reactor destination directory: codeigniter-reactor requesting all changes adding changesets transaction abort! rollback completed ** unknown exception encountered, please report by visiting ** http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BugTracker ** Python 2.7.2+ (default, Jul 9 2011, 22:56:56) [GCC 4.6.1 20110611 (prerelease)] ** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.9) ** Extensions loaded: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hg", line 38, in <module> mercurial.dispatch.run() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 27, in run sys.exit(dispatch(request(sys.argv[1:]))) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 64, in dispatch return _runcatch(req) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 87, in _runcatch return _dispatch(req) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 675, in _dispatch cmdpats, cmdoptions) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 454, in runcommand ret = _runcommand(ui, options, cmd, d) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 729, in _runcommand return checkargs() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 683, in checkargs return cmdfunc() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 672, in <lambda> d = lambda: util.checksignature(func)(ui, *args, **cmdoptions) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/util.py", line 385, in check return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/commands.py", line 1041, in clone branch=opts.get('branch')) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/hg.py", line 334, in clone destrepo.clone(srcrepo, heads=revs, stream=stream) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/localrepo.py", line 1946, in clone return self.pull(remote, heads) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/localrepo.py", line 1376, im pull lock=lock) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/localrepo.py", line 1741, in addchangegroup if (cl.addgroup(source, csmap, trp) is None File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/revlog.py", line 1182, in addgroup p1, p2, (baserev, delta), ifh, dfh) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/mercurial/revlog.py", line 1051, in _addrevision cachedelta[1]) mpatch.mpatchError: patch cannot be decoded -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: armel (armv5tel) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-kirkwood Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages mercurial depends on: ii libc6 2.13-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii mercurial-common 1.9-1 scalable distributed version contr ii python 2.6.7-2 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-support 1.0.14 automated rebuilding support for P ii ucf 3.0025+nmu2 Update Configuration File: preserv mercurial recommends no packages. Versions of packages mercurial suggests: pn kdiff3 | <none> (no description available) pn qct <none> (no description available) ii vim 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2+b1 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor pn wish <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org