interaction between dpkg-buildpackage

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

I am playing around with a copy of kde3.2 release tarballs imported into a 
local subversion repository.

I can check out the code ok - which them means the local checkout copy 
has .svn directories

When I do a dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot to build the code its seems to delete 
the .svn directory.

I've had a look to try and find out why but can't see where its happening.  I 
am aware you are using svn to use for the packaging of the official debs.  
How do you get round the problem?

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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk