Check for parent/mod as well as parent.mod in findext. Debian/Ubuntu ship a system-wide hgrc that loads extensions using the syntax hgext/extension=, rather than hgext.extension=. Although the extensions work correctly, hg help <extension> doesn't understand this form without this patch.

#!/bin/sh

unset HGUSER
EMAIL="My Name <myname@example.com>"
export EMAIL

hg init test
cd test
touch asdf
hg add asdf
hg commit -d '1000000 0' -m commit-1
hg tip