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So this came up on IRC: ancient tag objects in git have no "tagger" line, and thus converting such a repo with git fast-export is not possible. And the usual way - I just reported it on the mailing list and Dscho quickly provided the necessary patch.
I hope the ubuntu guy (who is in CC) will at least give Dscho a "thanks", but who knows if it'll ever happen..