mhonarc misbehaving on lists.debian.org

[Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>]

Hi,

[joy@master:~/lists]% scripts/updatemail -v -f -a lists/debian-68k/1997/debian-68k-199702
--> Forcibly removing /org/lists.debian.org/www/debian-68k/1997/debian-68k-199702
/org/lists.debian.org/mhonarc/bin/mhonarc  -rcfile /org/lists.debian.org/mhonarc/debian.rc -outdir /org/lists.debian.org/www/debian-68k/1997/debian-68k-199702 -definevar 'DEBLISTNAME="debian-68k Feb 1997"' -add /org/lists.debian.org/lists/debian-68k/1997/debian-68k-199702
This is MHonArc v2.5.2, Perl 5.00503 linux
Reading resource file: /org/lists.debian.org/mhonarc/debian.rc ...
Adding messages to /org/lists.debian.org/www/debian-68k/1997/debian-68k-199702
Reading /org/lists.debian.org/lists/debian-68k/1997/debian-68k-199702
No new messages
[joy@master:~/lists]% dir /org/lists.debian.org/www/debian-68k/1997/debian-68k-199702
./  ../  index.html@
[joy@master:~/lists]%

WTF doesn't it notice that there _are_ _no_ messages in the archive already,
and regenerate everything normally?

The mhonarc FAQ says this is supposed to work :(

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