why are is subversion 1.7 for F16/F17 removed

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
>
> Am 12.03.2012 19:16, schrieb Paul W. Frields:
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:46:08PM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Jesse Keating
>>> <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
>>>> On 3/12/12 10:43 AM, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> No, it looks like it stayed in testing because the version was
>>>>> updated.  I don't see where it was ever in stable.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-2673
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> He expected that it /would/ be pushed to stable.
>>>
>>> Well, yes.  And I can understand that.  But as you said, that's no
>>> guarantee it'll ever hit stable.
>>
>> If needed, the OP should be able to scratch-build the 1.7.0-2 packages
>> from the package git repository, or (hopefully) some later and
>> presumably improved 1.7.x version.  +1 on the guarantee, but that
>> doesn't help the OP if he has converted repos.  Caveat emptor.
>
> i tried a "rpmbuild --rebuild" with one of the later
> F17 src.rpm on my F16 build-vm but it failed because
> build-requirements

[jwboyer at zod fedora]$ fedpkg clone subversion
Cloning into 'subversion'...
remote: Counting objects: 1329, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (768/768), done.
remote: Total 1329 (delta 664), reused 1064 (delta 502)
Receiving objects: 100% (1329/1329), 496.62 KiB | 489 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (664/664), done.
[jwboyer at zod fedora]$ cd subversion/
[jwboyer at zod subversion]$ fedpkg switch-branch f16
Branch f16 set up to track remote branch f16 from origin.
[jwboyer at zod subversion]$ fedpkg scratch-build
cat: /usr/include/httpd/.mmn: No such file or directory
sh: ruby: command not found
sh: ruby: command not found
sh: ruby: command not found
cat: /usr/include/httpd/.mmn: No such file or directory
sh: ruby: command not found
sh: ruby: command not found
sh: ruby: command not found

Building subversion-1.7.1-1.fc16 for f16-candidate
Created task: 3887068
Task info: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3887068
Watching tasks (this may be safely interrupted)...
3887068 build (f16-candidate,
/subversion:d882fd1d57d847e251ccd5a888282200e54cd45b): free
3887068 build (f16-candidate,
/subversion:d882fd1d57d847e251ccd5a888282200e54cd45b): free -> open
(ppc12.phx2.fedoraproject.org)
  3887071 buildSRPMFromSCM
(/subversion:d882fd1d57d847e251ccd5a888282200e54cd45b): open
(x86-13.phx2.fedoraproject.org)

If that works, then there you go.  If not, then you can figure out why and
duplicate the same steps.

josh