[arch-dev-public] subversion-1.7.2-1 in [testing] repo

[Eric Bélanger]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 09:27 AM, Eric Bélanger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just pushed an upstream update (1.7.2) for subversion in the [testing] repo.
>>
>> There should be no compatibility problems when updating from 1.6.X.
>> The only minor issue is that existing working copies created with
>> Subversion 1.6 and earlier need to be upgraded before they can be used
>> with a Subversion 1.7 client.  Running 'svn upgrade' in the checkout
>> copies fixes this.
>
> does "svn upgrade" require the server to run 1.7 ?

no.

>
>>
>> The major packaging changes  is that  the ruby bindings are now
>> disabled. Because of issues with the binding tests, upstream is
>> disabling the build of ruby bindings with Ruby 1.9 or later. As we
>> have ruby 1.9 in the repo, I took the easy way out and simply disabled
>> them.  We could readd them later when it'll have support for ruby 1.9.
>> I'm not sure how many people were using these bindings.
>>
>> I also did other minor change to the package:
>> - Update license, Add file depends, Add missing hook scripts, Add
>> python2 and ruby optdepends for the hook scripts, Clean up PKGBUILD,
>> Remove old patches
>>
>> As we use subversion for the repos, please test it and sign it off on
>> the signoff page (or report any problems).
>>
>> Eric
>
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> Ionuț
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