It would be good to start from this patch, which applies to 1.4.x without the debian patch apply merger.
http://samba.org/~metze/subversion-1.4.0-metze-python-bindings.patch -- Update to match Subversion 1.5 interface https://launchpad.net/bugs/73918 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs