After talking to the author of svk (clkao), we've deduced that it was a YAML compatibility error. I had a newer version of YAML.pm (0.62) installed which serialized the ~/.svk/config file differently than how the version shipped with Edgy (0.57) expected.
After talking to the author of svk (clkao), we've deduced that it was a YAML compatibility error. I had a newer version of YAML.pm (0.62) installed which serialized the ~/.svk/config file differently than how the version shipped with Edgy (0.57) expected.