Do you think you would be up for working on patch removing the
maintenance file checking from darcs? Nobody seems against it, and I
think we all generally agree that it would avoid some craziness in the
bugs code.
The following patch updated the status of issue1402 to be resolved:
* Resolve issue1402: don't "phone home" about bugs.
Ignore-this: fd1f1ddd2bad613f54c1237e22d20059