--- dev-util/subversion/subversion-1.5.1.ebuild
+++ dev-util/subversion/subversion-1.5.2.ebuild
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 
 DESCRIPTION="Advanced version control system"
 HOMEPAGE="http://subversion.tigris.org/"
-SRC_URI="http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/${P/_/-}.tar.bz2
-	mirror://gentoo/${P}-ra_serf-improvements.patch.bz2"
+SRC_URI="http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/${P/_/-}.tar.bz2"
 
 LICENSE="Subversion"
 SLOT="0"
@@ -72,9 +71,6 @@
 	cd "${S}"
 
 	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/1.5.0/disable-unneeded-linking.patch
-	epatch "${WORKDIR}"/${P}-ra_serf-improvements.patch
-
-	sed -i -e '/NEON_\(ALLOWED_LIST\|RECOMMENDED_VER\)/s/0\.28\.2/& 0.28.3/g' configure.ac
 
 	sed -i \
 		-e "s/\(BUILD_RULES=.*\) bdb-test\(.*\)/\1\2/g" \
@@ -120,9 +116,6 @@
 		--without-junit \
 		--disable-mod-activation
 
-	# Respect the user LDFLAGS when building Subversion SWIG bindings.
-	export SWIG_LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"
-
 	emake local-all || die "Building of core Subversion failed"
 
 	if use python; then