Comment 1 for bug 378078

ACK'd.

Vincenzo: If you look at the diff between the latest Debian version which was in Ubuntu and 1.1.2-2ubuntu1 (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22976334/mercurial_1.1.2-2_1.1.2-2ubuntu1.diff.gz), you'll see that changing the Maintainer isn't the only change (and you'll never find a package where it is the only change, unless whoever uploaded is was drunk :P). Matthias Klose's revision added a change to fix mercurial's executable so that it works with the default Python version and not a hard-coded one; however, if you build 1.2-1 and look at the top of file debian/mercurial/usr/bin/hg you'll see that even without Matthias's change the interpreter isn't hard-coded to any particular version anymore, so his change can be dropped and we can sync from Debian.