backporting subversion to both edgy and dapper

[francis west]

Hello,
    as this is my first time posting I hope i have the right mailing list,
I have started to backport subversion 1.4.2 from feisty to both dapper and
edgy.   What i have done is create chroot's of each using debootstrap (as i
used to on debian)  i removed all the source packages from apt and added one
for feisty.

I grabbed the source using apt-get source subversion,   once that was done i
started work on backporting the dependants,  apache2 etc, etc they all
compiled fine,  i admit i haven't done anything to check things like apache
other than dpkg i the lib that was needed to compile subversion.

to build the packages i used 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot'  i hope this is
the right way, i have found many tools that build debs however i don't know
which is the definitive?

keeping going i got to the point where all the dependencies for subversion
had been met,   i even backported 'debhelper' (this package is problem where
the problem is i guess)
subversion is very odd as it doesn't let you build the package as root,  so
i did 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot'  this this command the root
checking was satisfied and the package started to compile.  oh yes right now
i should mention that i have the same error on both edgy and dapper.  some
time later the build fails with the following:  (yes i finally got there)

START: strings-reps-test
lt-strings-reps-test: invalid option:
--srcdir=/usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base
PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 1: write a new rep, get a new key back
CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-write-new-rep
PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 2: write a new rep, then overwrite it
CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-write-rep
PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 3: write and overwrite a new rep; confirm with
reads
CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-read-rep
PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 4: write, then delete, a new rep; confirm
deletion
CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-delete-rep
PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 5: test many strings table functions together
CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-test-strings
PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 6: write a null string
CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-test-strings
PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 7: write a string, then abort during an
overwrite
CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-abort-string
PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 8: create and copy a string
CLEANUP: /usr/src/backports/subversion/subversion-1.4.2dfsg1
/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-copy-string
END: strings-reps-test

make: *** [debian/stamp-build-arch] Error 1


I don't know what makes me think it but i am suspect that i will need to
backport dpkg-dev to backport subversion.

thanks
Francis
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