Subversion 1.3.x Status Question

[Laszlo Boszormenyi]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:53 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> It may not propagate to testing right away because it depends on
> libneon25, which isn't in testing.
 It is going to testing without any problem I believe. Yesterday I made
an upload to fix a bug with partial GETs and Apache2/mod_dav (not very
important, but good to have it). This means neon25 needs nine more days
to testing, which will happen without any further delay IMHO.

>   neon25 may have some problem moving
> to testing because of the various other packages which haven't been
> updated to depend on it yet, such as tla.
 This does not matter as neon 0.24 and neon 0.25 can live together in
testing just as in unstable. When others make the build-dep transition,
neon 0.24 can go away, but that's all as I expect.

>   I don't anticipate any other
> problems with subversion 1.3.0 getting into testing - but of course one
> never knows.
 Yup. Well, I am going to make a new transition with neon. May the SVN
team has possibilities for make some tests before I upload the new neon
to unstable? As I would like to switch my build-dependency to GNU TLS,
I do not know how SVN would handle it. As SVN needs Apache2 as well,
which is built with OpenSSL, I do not know how SVN would behave; so I
don't want to break it without extensive testing. Hope you may help me
with this one.

> I _think_ you can rebuild subversion 1.3.0 for sarge simply by
> disabling java and moving from neon25 back to neon24: (a) near the top
> of debian/rules, change ENABLE_JAVAHL=yes to ENABLE_JAVAHL=no;
 I have already tried it _with_ java, I had to backport a lot of deeper
dependency and gave up after some. I may try it again without java on
Monday.

> (c) also in debian/control, change the two mentions of "libneon25-dev" back
> to "libneon24-dev".
 ... I can provide neon 0.25 for Sarge, as I already have it.

>   The whole thing takes some 40 minutes to build, on
> my machine, [...]
 Blush, over two hours on mine AFAICR.

> > I haven't used it yet also, so any thoughts there would also be
> > appreciated.  Debian server, XP Clients.
 My point is Sarge server, win$2k clients, will report back if I'm done.

> > When the call went out to ask for maintainers not long ago, I very
> > seriously considered putting in my name.  Only thing that stopped me
> > was reality.  Not enough hours in the day.
 Same as me, that's why I made my mistakes with SVN; that's why I am
better out from the SVN team. But hope you will have some free time
somewhen and can join to the SVN team. I think they would accept at
least a tester with win$ clients.

Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS