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Re: Re: subversion-tools/svnmerge update?



Jeppe Øland wrote:
>>>> It seems the svnmerge tool included in the subversion-tools package is
>>>> pretty ancient.
>>>> Whats the correct procedure to request an update?
>
> What does the svnmerge tool in the latest upstream do that the current
> version in Debian does not do?

The feature I'm needing is the ability to merge between different SVN servers.
Vendor releases -> private repository.

>> Looking closer, it seems subversion-tools is taken from the subversion
>> 1.6.x branch, and that branch hasn't been updated since early 2009.
>
> The upstream subversion home page lists 1.6.12 as the most recently
> released version.  Released on 2010-06-21.  That seems pretty recent
> to me!

Yes, but they haven't updated svnmerge.py (in the contrib folder).

>> Thanks for making me look closer!
>> Now I guess I need to go upstream :(
>
> Why do you need to go upstream?  Debian already has the latest
> available.

Yes. That's exactly the problem :-)

Regards,
-Jeppe


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