o dblink._md5_merge_map is misnamed and has nothing to do with md5's o line 4514 is cruft: hardlink_candidates is never None. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 309353 [details, diff] Rename variable and remove pointless code
Thanks, this is in git: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=5bd8b8a41326d16d4e8347bcddfee0d4ff8f6bd3
This is fixed in 2.1.10.57 and 2.2.0_alpha101.