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On 12/24/2009 12:08 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> I have begun using svn2cl[1] to manage the cygport ChangeLog. While this
> will only be a dependency for me and not for building from a source
> tarball, this should really be added to the distro.
>
> There are two alternatives:
>
> 1) As is done by other Linux distros[2][3], ship with subversion the
> (older) version of svn2cl from the subversion tarball with an upstream
> patch for compatibility with the latest libxml2[4], OR
>
> 2) one of us ITP the latest upstream version separately (I have a
> package ready[5]).
>
> Which would you prefer?

My initial preference is to package svn2cl as well as the other 
subversion tools either with subversion or in a separate 
subversion-tools package as is done on Debian. I had avoided doing this 
before because of the questionable licensing status for many of the tools.

Let me look into this over the next week.

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