diff -r 9fcb6df413c9 -r 2ecce24dfcd3 mercurial/debugcommands.py
--- a/mercurial/debugcommands.py	Wed Jun 14 20:56:34 2017 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/debugcommands.py	Sat Apr 22 19:56:47 2017 +0900
@@ -2121,9 +2121,9 @@
             ui.note(("* expanded:\n"), templater.prettyformat(newtree), '\n')
 
     if revs is None:
-        k = 'debugtemplate'
-        t = formatter.maketemplater(ui, k, tmpl)
-        ui.write(templater.stringify(t(k, ui=ui, **props)))
+        t = formatter.maketemplater(ui, tmpl)
+        props['ui'] = ui
+        ui.write(t.render(props))
     else:
         displayer = cmdutil.makelogtemplater(ui, repo, tmpl)
         for r in revs: