Upgrade to Subversion 1.6.x for Karmic

Additionally, the merge feature introduced with 1.5 has some bugs and therefore are quite useless.
1.5.5/6 fixes many of them.

How about 1.6.0?

How about 1.6.1 - at work, on windows, I always have the latest slik-svn and tortoissvn with easy popup update notification. Now I have upgraded to 1.6.1 all my repos and can't use them on linux any more...
But 1.6.1 is so cool - it can pack every "slice" (usually 1000 revisions) of a repo into just one optimised file with the svnadmin pack command. And its _WAY_ faster because they keep a lot of stuff no more in XML format, so says the subversion book... If git were not behind also, svn for the main repo and git-svn for an offline copy would be fine.
OK - there's also bazaar and mercural and ... but still, svn is enough for most scenarios and I would like to work with the most recent version to profit from innovation - if it were in jaunty proposed that would be enough OR some info how to get a ppa for .debs...

any updates about the inclusion of subversion 1.6.1 in ubuntu jaunty ?

Yes, the title should say 'upgrade to Subversion 1.6 for jaunty'.

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: subversion 1.5.4dfsg1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

I checked out the 1.6.2 tag from http://svn.collab.net... and managed to build it via autoconfig.sh / config and checkinstall.
Now I have a fine svn 1.6.2 commandline client. However, kdesvn, nautilussvn etc. ppp all based on older 1.5-series refuse to work proberly and asking me to revert my wc's format to 1.5 series.
On good old xp at work, it is as easy as downloading slicksvn and tortoisesvn to have a nice svn-working environment with alle the benefits from 1.6 such as much faster operation, and the ability to compress every 1000 Revs into one single file.
On the other hand, git svn is poor still on xp, so I have to live with tsvn in the virtual machine and then git-ing it on linux if I want to take work with me... sad...

If this bug does make it into Karmic, bug 380849 requests the package be included in jaunty-backports.

Here is a debdiff against subversion 1.6.1dfsg-1 from Debian experimental with the relevant Ubuntu changes merged in. (I also had to disable DEB_OPT_PARALLEL to work around what appears to be an upstream Makefile bug.) It should be suitable for upload to Karmic.

I have built this Karmic package, as well as backports to Jaunty, Intrepid, and Hardy, in my PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/subversion-1.6

Just as a note, I’ve filed these two bugs with Debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531366
Upgrade to Subversion 1.6.2

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531369
subversion 1.6.1dfsg-1 fails to build with DEB_OPT_PARALLEL

I asked the Debian maintainer in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531366 why 1.6.x hasn’t moved out of Debian experimental yet, and got a detailed response. The three issues he mentioned look relatively minor, and the second isn’t an issue for Ubuntu (we already disable serf because it’s in universe), but we should be aware of them and of the fact that 1.6.x in experimental might not get updates as frequently as 1.5.x in unstable would.

I think we should still get 1.6.x into Karmic; there is plenty of time to work out any remaining issues. But if we want to stay with 1.5.x for now, we should at least merge 1.5.6 from testing/unstable (debdiff in bug 382002).

Seems Steve Langasek did the merge and update:

subversion | 1.6.1dfsg-1ubuntu1 | karmic | source