Farmbuyer wrote: > I've recently found myself with a need to upgrade my SVN client to 1.7, > so I started poking around some. As I recall 1.7 takes some major changes in direction of some of the previous functionality. For example the .svn directory is now only at the top level and not in every directory. Meaning that subdirectories are not standalone anymore. That will probably break some people and break some applications that work with subversion in a large ripple down cascade. That might scare a distro maintainer into holding off and waiting for dust to settle. I could see something like that going into experimental for a long while first. However I haven't played with that yet so don't know. > And a meta-question: where might I look for discussions about future SVN > package plans? Searching debian-user archives didn't find anything. I'm > hoping the maintainer is just on holiday for a bit. You might file a wishlist bug requesting packaging the newer 1.7 against the subversion package. If there isn't one already. I always like to see included a reason for the request such as at least one specific feature that the new version provides that isn't available in the current version. Just requesting a newer version because there is a newer version available isn't enough and is a pet peeve of mine. Sometimes something in the build will change and there will be no visible changes in the result at all and yet someone will request a newer version anyway. In any case, list why you want the newer version in your bts request. Then that bug log could become the place for the discussion of the newer version and why and what problems exist with it. Bob
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