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kdesvn is not compatible with SVN 1.5

Bug #277049 reported by Eric ALBER
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kdesvn

In hardy-backports current version of subversion is 1.5.1dfsg1-1ubuntu2~hardy2 . This version is however imcompatible with the version of kdesvn (newest version 0.14.1-1).

Support for svn 1.5 is added in a much later version of kdesvn. From the upstream changelog:
version 1.0.0: * integrated direct support for subversion 1.5

Currently it causes these problems:
A lot of unicode related error message boxes:
"Invalid UTF-8 data
...
(hex: b0 76 47 08)"
When trying to commit kdesvn crashes.

Eg. with hardy-backports enabled fully kdesvn is useless.

I would suggest updating kdesvn in hardy-backports to the version currently in debian unstable (1.0.4-2). This would fix at least these bugs: LP: #250544, #268112, #277049

I've done a test build of 1.0.4-2 against hardy-backports and kdesvn runs perfectly. The test build can be found here: http://awen.dk/packages/kdesvn/

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Ahmad Tarek (ahmadtarek) wrote :

Can you please provide the version of kdesvn and Ubuntu you are using.

Changed in kdesvn:
status: New → Incomplete
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bq (balique) wrote :

I have had the same problem. I am running 8.04 , but (I think because I wanted to test kde 4.1 and so added some repositories) , the svn 1.5 installed from som repository. MAYBE the intrepid-backports repository ... or http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu repository ... or whatever .... I do not now, but in plain hardy repository the subversion is still 1.4.

Workaround is pinning the svn version. That means in the (if nonexistent, create it) file /etc/apt/preferences adding lines :
Package: subversion
Pin: version 1.4.6dfsg1-2ubuntu1
Pin-Priority: 1000

Package: libsvn1
Pin: version 1.4.6dfsg1-2ubuntu1
Pin-Priority: 1000

And then doing an update.
For fixing woking copies, that have been already converted to 1.5 format .. you can use a python script "change-svn-wc-format.py" from the net, it worked fine on my huge wc ;).

Real solution (out of my scope):
There should be a dependency kdesvn ....... <= svn client 1.4

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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

I'll try asking the backports team how to get the new version into hardy-backports.

description: updated
Changed in kdesvn:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

Backport/import requested in bug 283468.

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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

Version supporting svn1.5 is now in hardy-backports:

kdesvn (1.0.4-2~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low

  * Upload fixed KDE3 package from sid for compatibility with svn 1.5
    (LP: #283468)
    - Intrepid package is KDE4 and not a suitable solution for
      hardy-backports

 -- Scott Kitterman < <email address hidden>> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:14:20 -0400

Changed in kdesvn:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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