pantsbuild/pants — pull request #210 by ericzundel (2014-06-12 11:40:55+00:00)
Title: Removing .pants.d during clean.sh makes it easier for me to get past the Untranslatable .. exception

This may be heavy handed, but it seems to be key to getting past the Untranslatable exceptions that crop up.
If there is a reason not to delete the entire .pants.d during a clean, then I'll look into cleaning up just the portion that is caching the failed package download.