Comment 2 for bug 58625

David Kimdon wrote:
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> My expectation is that in most cases svnserve is used on conjunction
> with ssh or is started via inetd. In that case no init.d script is
> needed

I see what you mean. I didn't realise that was the intention.

..
> Should
> there be a commented entry in /etc/inetd.conf?

That would help. Perhaps an installation configuration question asking
the user whether they want svnserve to be started by inetd would be better?

> If you can describe a bit how you are using svnserve
> we can probably find something that makes sense.

I've created my own /etc/init.d/svn and /etc/default/svnserve
I could post them if you want them.
However, svnserve seems rather lightweight so far, so inetd could be
entirely adequate.