sat2050: I would much rather take your solution to mece's one. Can you possibly request to be the maintainer of the subversion package in the repository and push your fixed-for-latest-version-of-the-libs subversion package to the repository?

Not that I can't compile myself, and I probably will using your steps, but it'd be nice if people didn't have to deal with either of the fixes in this thread from now on.

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My problem with Mece's solution is obviously we had something that installed a more recent version of that lib - if something else depends on the later lib, now or in the future, we're back into dependency hell.