[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#700908: Bug#700908: new upstream version (tag?) (maybe?) available

[Scott Howard]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat at debian.org> wrote:
> After a night of testing, I can confirm 0.8 works *much* better. As I
> was told in #700908, the database storage for blocks has changed, and
> performs much better.
>
> It seems that the old block database is left lying around however, so
> user intervention is needed to finish the upgrade.
>
> Here I had to rm ~/.bitcoin/blk* to remove duplicate data from the other
> block database, now stored in ~/.bitcoin/blocks/.

check out
contrib/tidy_datadir.sh

in the source code tree, it should clean up the old blocks