[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#678606: chromium: does chromium really need to build-depend on subversion?

[shawn]

Package: chromium
Version: 20
Severity: normal

What does Chromium need subversion for during the build? Is it really needed?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (101, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-tomoyo-00006-gfd64aac (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector  18.0.1025.168~r134367-1
ii  gconf-service       3.2.5-1
ii  libasound2          1.0.25-3em1
ii  libavcodec53        6:0.8.2-2
ii  libavformat53       6:0.8.2-2
ii  libavutil51         6:0.8.2-2
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.6-3
ii  libc6               2.13-33
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-2em1
ii  libcups2            1.5.3-1
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.0-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5      2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libexpat1           2.1.0-1em1
ii  libflac8            1.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig1      2.9.0-6
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1em1
ii  libgcc1             1:4.7.0-11
ii  libgconf-2-4        3.2.5-1
ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-1
ii  libjpeg8            8d-1em1
ii  libnspr4            2:4.9-3
ii  libnss3-1d          2:3.13.4-3
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.49-1em1
ii  libpulse0           2.0-3
ii  libspeex1           1.2~rc1-6
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.0-11
ii  libudev0            175-3.1em1
ii  libv8-3.8.9.20      3.8.9.20-1
ii  libvpx1             1.1.0-1
ii  libwebp2            0.1.3-3
ii  libx11-6            2:1.4.99.901-2em1
ii  libxext6            2:1.3.1-2em1
ii  libxfixes3          1:5.0-4
ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-2
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.7-1em1
ii  libxslt1.1          1.1.26-12
ii  libxss1             1:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils           1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.7.dfsg-11

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>