strange python error, when running hg log (well vc-print-root-log)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "MK" == Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski at mekk.waw.pl> writes:

> Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>>>> "MK" == Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski at mekk.waw.pl> writes:
>> 
>>> | ** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 5.2rc0+20200125)
>>> Fairly old and pre-release version. What about using stable one at least?
>> 
>> 
>> Well I need one which works with the artemis extension (extension for
>> 

> Use even hg 4.1 if you need to. Just don't use „rc0”, this is unstable
> pre-release.
> I would also steer out of early 5.* as those were versions
> which started to work on py3 support, with some resulting glitches.

Well, thanks, fun fact I just tried to compile with py2

@  changeset:   43418:ca3dca416f8d
│  Branch:      stable
│  tag:         5.2
│  Author:      Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org>
│  Date:        Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:35:19 +0900
│  Phase:       public
│  Summary:     py3: add inline comment about encoding issue of str(Abort())
│

Which I understand is the stable 5.2 version, but 

dpkg-deb: building package 'mercurial' in '../mercurial_5.2+20221107-xenial-20221107_amd64.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges -b >../mercurial_5.2+20221107-xenial-20221107_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload (no source code included)
 dpkg-source -i -I --after-build hg-stable
dpkg-buildpackage: binary-only upload (no source included)
Now running lintian...
W: mercurial: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man5/hgrc.5.gz 1608: warning [p 21, 4.7i]: can't break line
Finished running lintian.


Sigh, anyhow

> Also, problems with `hg log` can sometimes result from using various
> mercurial versions on the same checkout. You can try removing
> .hg/cache contents and if it doesn't help, re-cloning repo with
> the version you use. Mercurial mostly does good job working with
> checkouts made by older versions (although I have to remove
> aforementioned .hg/cache from time to time after major upgrade)
> but downgrade (say checking repo with hg6 and using with hg5)
> is more risky.

Well it happens with *all* even freshly generated repositories

I will try 5.1 stable.


And continue trying to figure out what is up here.




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