Relays publish on average more than 1 descriptor per hour

Today, I noticed that some relays publish more server descriptors than they should, which would be 1 or 2 per day. For example, tor26 and gabelmoo both publish on average 1 server descriptor per hour, most likely after the auto-naming script sends tor a HUP signal.

Sebastian mentioned that this problem is probably related to legacy/trac#1810 (moved), but he also says that this bug was introduced in 0.2.2.6-alpha. However, from looking at the following list of published server descriptors by gabelmoo and tor26, it seems like the problem started with 0.2.2.22-alpha.

 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-28 08:42:56
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-29 02:43:20
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-29 20:44:17
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-30 14:45:10
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-31 08:45:42
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-01 02:46:41
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-01 08:41:43
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-02 02:42:13
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-02 20:43:20
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha (git-13e9a2b19d4a65d9) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 10:30:37
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 13:11:50
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 13:25:06
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 14:23:49
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 14:26:18
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 15:10:10
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 16:10:08
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 17:10:07
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 18:10:08
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 19:10:08
 gabelmoo | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-02-03 20:10:08

 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-21 10:36:45
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-22 04:37:28
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-22 22:38:19
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-22 23:35:31
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-23 17:36:00
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-24 11:36:47
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-25 05:37:32
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-25 23:38:17
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-26 17:39:01
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha (git-ba63b8afd8e49391) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-26 20:34:54
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-26 20:35:40
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-26 20:37:11
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-26 20:51:48
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-26 21:23:47
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-26 22:24:01
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-26 23:24:05
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-27 00:23:57
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-27 01:23:16
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-27 02:23:17
 tor26    | Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-21b3de6cf37d4e60) on Linux x86_64 | 2011-01-27 03:23:16