initialisation was lost on the way (see log entry: version 0.2.2 2004/04/14). i haven't seen this problem for a long time, but i don't remember that it was fixed. nicolai, maybe you want to adjust the year entries in your Changelog (2003->2004)
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Fixed in app-portage/getdelta-0.6.9 (0.6.8). Thanks, Nicolai.