martin f krafft wrote: > Well, ideally the support tool should not impose on the structure Yes, svn-buildpackage is quite nice since it's easy to tell it about your layout. Something like that could work here as well. > SVN does not track merges across branches, unless you do it in the > changelog. I know, it's a pain in the neck. But still it's a good step forward over CVS, and seems to be quite popular in Debian. I hope svn will improve in this area.