I've been using svk for a couple weeks now, and I find Hoary's version very inadequate. So, I backported 1.00-1 from Breezy. It's working very well, and in the unofficial Backports tree. I'd like to see this in the official Backports tree, too. However, there's a few build issues: 1) The specific versions of perl modules that it depends on cannot be satisfied in Hoary. I removed the version checks. 2) About 5 unit tests fail, which forces the build to fail. Investigating on these failures, they're for new features that want those newer perl modules. However, these features aren't in SVK 0.29 anyway, so it's still a HUGE improvement from Hoary! So, control needs to be edited, and rules needs to be edited to remove "make test" (disable unit testing). I've used backported svk quite a bit, with no problems at all.