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Re: svn-bisect no longer in subversion-tools


On 07/01/2015 18:14, David Rothenberger wrote:
On 1/7/2015 7:18 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
/usr/bin/svn-bisect is not in the current release of subversion-tools,
but it's in the previous release.  Is this a packaging oversight or a
deliberate decision?
It was an explicit decision by me, the package maintainer. The 1.7
release series had an svn-bisect that I grabbed from Debian. It is not
part of the official Subversion repository. In 1.8, Subversion upstream
decided to remove many of the contributed tools from their repository. I
decided at the same time to drop svn-bisect and a few other tools from
Debian because Debian does not have 1.8 and it felt to me like
svn-bisect should be a separate package.

I took a brief look at this. For the record, there are two completely different scripts called svn-bisect, depending on which Linux distro you use. The script mentioned above is a shell script found in Debian / Ubuntu. The entire script is patched in during the subversion build process, and it is packaged in Debian's 'subversion-tools'.

Fedora / Centos have a perl script (also called svn-bisect) coming from the App-SVN-Bisect perl module. The script is in its own package, also called 'svn-bisect'. This won't run in Cygwin as things stand, as a number of dependent perl modules are missing.

The two scripts perform the same function, and the calling syntax is /nearly/ the same...

Dave.



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