Sorry about that.  The support for hashed repos existed long before 2.0 was released and so I misremembered the hashed support as appearing in a 1.x release.

It looks like you need at least 2.0 to read darcs 1 hashed repos.

Upgrading to a modern darcs client is advised and is only a 'cabal install darcs' away.  I was under the impression that even debian stable has moved on to 2.x releases.  How is it that you have a 1.0.9 release candidate client still?

Jason