The reported error might be not directly related with python 2.6/2.7 or the unstable version of mercurial:
I'm guessing that the original bug report caontained output of mercurial run on ARM architecture (my guess is that sheeva stands for sheevaplug), compiled with the "recently" updated gcc 4.6.1 toolchain. Apparently problems have been reported even for the stable version of mercurial when compiled with gcc 4.6.1 ARM toolchain: http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue2877 I myself get exactly the same traceback reported in the original bug report and in the upstream one, when running any operation (clone, log, verify) using mercurial on debian ARM after a recent update that brought mercurial 1.8.3 and the gcc 4.6.1 toolchain. I would suggest revising the priority/severity of this bug (in the scope of armel architecture) as it seems to me that, at least on armel, the new packages are completely useless as any operation on new and preexisting repositories fails with this error. I'm not using any third party extension, nor any extension not included in the official bundle, and even disabling any extension the bug persists. I'm attaching the output of hg version and hg log (this is with all extensions disabled): hg@sheeva:~/repos/ecsign$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) Release: testing Codename: wheezy hg@sheeva:~/repos/ecsign$ uname -mo armv5tel GNU/Linux hg@sheeva:~/repos/ecsign$ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) BogoMIPS : 1191.11 Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp CPU implementer : 0x56 CPU architecture: 5TE CPU variant : 0x2 CPU part : 0x131 CPU revision : 1 Hardware : Marvell eSATA SheevaPlug Reference Board Revision : 0000 Serial : 0000000000000000 hg@sheeva:~/repos/ecsign$ hg version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.8.3) (see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information) Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Matt Mackall and others This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. hg@sheeva:~/repos/ecsign$ hg log ** unknown exception encountered, please report by visiting ** http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BugTracker ** Python 2.6.7 (r267:88850, Jul 10 2011, 11:09:45) [GCC 4.6.1 20110611 (prerelease)] ** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.8.3) ** Extensions loaded: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hg", line 38, in <module> mercurial.dispatch.run() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 16, in run sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:])) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 36, in dispatch return _runcatch(u, args) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 58, in _runcatch return _dispatch(ui, args) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 601, in _dispatch cmdpats, cmdoptions) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 406, in runcommand ret = _runcommand(ui, options, cmd, d) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 655, in _runcommand return checkargs() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 609, in checkargs return cmdfunc() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 598, in <lambda> d = lambda: util.checksignature(func)(ui, *args, **cmdoptions) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/util.py", line 433, in check return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/commands.py", line 2666, in log for ctx in cmdutil.walkchangerevs(repo, matchfn, opts, prep): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/cmdutil.py", line 1303, in iterate prepare(ctx, fns) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/commands.py", line 2664, in prep displayer.show(ctx, copies=copies, matchfn=revmatchfn) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/cmdutil.py", line 784, in show self._show(ctx, copies, matchfn, props) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/cmdutil.py", line 800, in _show date = util.datestr(ctx.date()) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/context.py", line 106, in date return self._changeset[2] File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/util.py", line 169, in __get__ result = self.func(obj) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/context.py", line 59, in _changeset return self._repo.changelog.read(self.node()) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/changelog.py", line 173, in read text = self.revision(node) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mercurial/revlog.py", line 871, in revision text = mdiff.patches(text, bins) mpatch.mpatchError: patch cannot be decoded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
