subversion 1.5.6 built without ra_neon

[Martin Emrich]

Binary package hint: subversion

Seems like #43423 or #152394 is back: since upgrading karmic today, subversion no longer supports https:// URLs:

$ LANG=C svn --version
svn, version 1.5.6 (r36142)
   compiled Jun 7 2009, 20:45:10

Copyright (C) 2000-2008 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - with Cyrus SASL authentication
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme

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ra_svn seems to be missing.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

I investigated further: not ra_svn (typo) but ra_neon is missing.
It looks like the libneon27 version is wrong:

From subversions ./configure :
------------------
checking neon library version... 0.28.4
You have neon version 0.28.4,
but Subversion needs neon 0.28.3.

An appropriate version of neon could not be found, so libsvn_ra_neon
will not be built. If you want to build libsvn_ra_neon, please either
install neon 0.28.3 on this system

or

get neon 0.28.3 from:
    http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.28.3.tar.gz
unpack the archive using tar/gunzip and rename the resulting
directory from ./neon-0.28.3/ to ./neon/

no suitable neon found
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[Max Bowsher (maxb)]

I suggest adding --disable-neon-version-check to the configure invocation for now, to instruct Subversion that it doesn't need to be *that* obsessive about which versions of neon it will use.

[Semerkhet (mail-semerkhet)]

Same problem here (on Karmic amd64 with the same svn version as above). I can't access http:// or https:// repositories.

$ svn up
svn: Unrecognized URL scheme for http://.....

[Max Bowsher (maxb)]

I've added --disable-neon-version-check and uploaded packages to my PPA, this successfully fixes the problem.
Here's the diff courtesy of Launchpad:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27641712/subversion_1.5.6dfsg-1ubuntu1_1.5.6dfsg-1ubuntu1ppa1.diff.gz

[Max Bowsher (maxb)]

Attaching debdiff.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This was fixed in the upload of subversion 1.6.1dfsg-1ubuntu1. Changelog:

subversion (1.6.1dfsg-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian experimental, remaining changes:
    - Create pot file on build.
    - Build a python-subversion-dbg package.
    - (Build-)depend on default-jre-headless/-jdk.
    - Do not apply java-build patch.
    - Don't build for python2.4, not in main.
  * Fixes autodetection of neon. LP: #384715.