[Anders Kaseorg] > Please update the Debian experimental package from 1.6.1 to 1.6.2.
I keep thinking about it, but I also note that 1.6.3 will be out Pretty Soon Now. (Probably less than a week.) Since I'm still building for experimental, rather than unstable, it seems less critical to track upstream that closely. > By the way, what needs to happen before 1.6 moves out of > experimental? In my mind, unstable is for things that I think could potentially go to testing and to release. There are two issues I know about that prevent me from thinking Subversion 1.6 is there yet: (1) With gnome-keyring support enabled for authentication and for certificate passphrases, you get an ugly message on console if the plugin can't initialize the X client library (as if $DISPLAY is not set). This is the fault of the dbus library, I think, not Subversion directly, but it's still something I want to fix. There isn't a bug about this, it's just in my head - I've been too lazy to file one. (1a) I suspect the same would be true for kwallet support, if I were to build with that, which I don't at the moment. Since it too uses dbus. (2) I can't enable the serf backend for http/https support, since serf in debian is still at 0.2.0 and Subversion 1.6 requires at least 0.3.0. This would be a regression from 1.5, where I have enabled libsvn_ra_serf. For most people this isn't important - it doesn't add new client functionality above the default libsvn_ra_neon, but various people use libsvn_ra_serf to work around problems with libsvn_ra_neon. (neon/serf can be chosen on a per-site basis in ~/.subversion/servers.) See Bug #520546. There is also: (3) I want to investigate at least a little bit whether 1.6.2 behaves reasonably w/r/t killing ssh sessions after it has finished using them. Upstream had poor handling of such things earlier, which I patched a long time ago in Debian, but a different approach was recently merged to upstream 1.6, and I had some trouble keeping track of exactly what code went in and whether it handles things as well as Debian's patch does. However, I also have this vague belief that 1.6.3 improves on 1.6.2 in this regard. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
