Re: Subversion in backports

[Michael Diers <mdiers@elego.de>]

Michael Diers wrote:
> Stuart Rowan wrote:
>> Reinhard Tartler wrote, on 17/03/10 17:38:
>>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 18:11:39 (CET), Freddy Spierenburg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Michael and Reinhard,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:36:45PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>>> AFAIR backporting subversion was rather straight forward to do.
>>>> Rather straight forward was not really the case, but I have
>>>> something that works for me.
>>>>
>>>> I had to disable Java-support (javahl), since that brought me
>>>> into a dependency hell. The dependency on gcj-jdk needed me to
>>>> backport the gcc4.4 compiler too and I didn't want to go there.
>>> perhaps backports.org admin can comment on how to solve that?
>>>
>>> dropping javahl support does not seem an option to me, as this would
>>> most likely break the subclipse plugin (subversion support for eclipse).
>>> I'd rather stay on the older version than breaking that, as our site
>>> uses eclipse quite a lot.
>>>
>> subclipse can use svnkit instead. This is preferable for many people as
>> svnkit is pure Java code.
>>
>> That said, I'm surprised that one can't switch to building against the
>> various gcj packages that ship with Lenny ... or is gcj in Lenny still
>> sufficiently borked compared to sun-java6-jdk that it is a lost cause?
> 
> Don't know about calling it a lost cause, but yes, gcj-jdk can't even
> run the test suite of Subversion's javahl bindings without errors.
> 
> An obvious workaround is to build-depend on OpenJDK, which is in lenny
> and does not suffer from that problem.
> 
> I will submit an updated package later today.

An updated source package is now available on mentors.debian.net, see
separate message with subject

RFS: subversion (updated package) [lenny-backports, 1.6.9dfsg-1~bpo50+1]

Cheers,

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Michael Diers, elego Software Solutions GmbH, http://www.elego.de