duplicity crashed with TypeError in __init__()

Binary package hint: duplicity

The traceback shows that duplicity in intrepid apparently can't cope without a username in an scp url. This was working ok in hardy.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/duplicity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: duplicity 0.4.12-2
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/duplicity -v6 --no-encrypt --archive /backup/duplicity-metadata/hostname_username_to_wistful/ --exclude /home/username/.sp --exclude **/.cache --exclude **/.ccache --exclude **/Cache --exclude **/nobackup --exclude **/.cache --exclude /home/username/.bibble/cache --exclude /home/username/.bibble/tmp --exclude /home/username/.bibble/thumbs --exclude **/.spamassassin/bayes_* --exclude **/*.GONE --exclude **/*.gone --exclude **/GONE --exclude **/++pristine-trees --exclude **/,,* --exclude **/.arch-cache --exclude **/.gqview/thumbnails --exclude **/.gqview/trash --exclude **/.thumbnails --exclude **/test????.tmp --exclude **/*.py[co] --exclude /home/username/.Trash --exclude /home/username/pkg --exclude /home/username/photos --exclude /home/username/movies --exclude /home/username/mail --exclude /home/username/backup --exclude /home/username/tmp --exclude /home/username/build --exclude /home/username/pristine --exclude /home/username/photos --exclude /home/username/.evolution/mail/imap --exclude /home/username/.evolution/mail/pop --exclude /home/username/.evolution/cache --exclude /home/username/.java/deployment/cache --exclude /home/username/vmware/**/*.vmem --exclude /home/username/.liferea_1.4/cache --exclude /home/username/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/cache --exclude /home/username/.openoffice.org2/user/uno_packages/cache --exclude /home/username/.secondlife/cache --exclude /home/username/.sheep/ --full-if-older-than 3M --volsize 100 /home/username/ scp://wistful//backup/hostname/home_username.duplicity/
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/home/username/bin:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=zsh
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/duplicity', '-v6', '--no-encrypt', '--archive', '/backup/duplicity-metadata/hostname_username_to_wistful/', '--exclude', '/home/username/.sp', '--exclude', '**/.cache', '--exclude', '**/.ccache', '--exclude', '**/Cache', '--exclude', '**/nobackup', '--exclude', '**/.cache', '--exclude', '/home/username/.bibble/cache', '--exclude', '/home/username/.bibble/tmp', '--exclude', '/home/username/.bibble/thumbs', '--exclude', '**/.spamassassin/bayes_*', '--exclude', '**/*.GONE', '--exclude', '**/*.gone', '--exclude', '**/GONE', '--exclude', '**/++pristine-trees', '--exclude', '**/,,*', '--exclude', '**/.arch-cache', '--exclude', '**/.gqview/thumbnails', '--exclude', '**/.gqview/trash', '--exclude', '**/.thumbnails', '--exclude', '**/test????.tmp', '--exclude', '**/*.py[co]', '--exclude', '/home/username/.Trash', '--exclude', '/home/username/pkg', '--exclude', '/home/username/photos', '--exclude', '/home/username/movies', '--exclude', '/home/username/mail', '--exclude', '/home/username/backup', '--exclude', '/home/username/tmp', '--exclude', '/home/username/build', '--exclude', '/home/username/pristine', '--exclude', '/home/username/photos', '--exclude', '/home/username/.evolution/mail/imap', '--exclude', '/home/username/.evolution/mail/pop', '--exclude', '/home/username/.evolution/cache', '--exclude', '/home/username/.java/deployment/cache', '--exclude', '/home/username/vmware/**/*.vmem', '--exclude', '/home/username/.liferea_1.4/cache', '--exclude', '/home/username/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/cache', '--exclude', '/home/username/.openoffice.org2/user/uno_packages/cache', '--exclude', '/home/username/.secondlife/cache', '--exclude', '/home/username/.sheep/', '--full-if-older-than', '3M', '--volsize', '100', '/home/username/', 'scp://wistful//backup/hostname/home_username.duplicity/']
SourcePackage: duplicity
Title: duplicity crashed with TypeError in __init__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic i686
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