Version bump request as 1.7.2 has been released. Renaming the ebuild worked for me. Fixes a number of bugs, including bug 389961 (which was my motivation for trying it). Reproducible: Always Version 1.7.2 (02 Dec 2011, from /branches/1.7.x) http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.7.2 User-visible changes: * fix working copy corruption after interrupted update/switch (issue #4040) * avoid segfaults against pre-1.5 servers (r1186928) * improve configure error message if apr-util uses old or no bdb (r1186784) * make 'svn patch' ignore '/dev/null' targets for compat with git (r1197998) * fix 'svn patch' segfault on patch that skips and deletes files (r1199950) * omit "Committed revision N." output from 'svn commit --quiet' (r1200837) * fix authz denial when svnserve root is a repository (issue #4060) * fix uninitialized memory read in client diff code (r1201002) * avoid potential segfault during merges (r1202807) * fix an assertion failure when a symlink is updated (r1186944, -81, -83) * make working copy operations fail if nodes have no base checksum (r1202630) * fix nested <Location>s when using v2 protocol (r1203546, -651, -653) * make mod_dav_svn ignore non-Subversion POST requests (r1187695) * avoid reading freed memory (r1204478) * recognize empty (only byte order mark) UTF-8 files as text (issue #4064) * fix 1.7 client regression when operating against a 1.0.x server (r1199876) * remove empty parent dirs of removed externals on update (issue #4044) * make 'svn diff -c N' work for files added in rN (issue #2873) * plug a memory leak in the bdb backend (r1205726) * fix 'svn import' with native eol-style and inconsistent EOLs (r1205193) * fix reading beyond the end of a string in bdb backend (r1205839, -48) * don't assert when committing an incomplete directory (issue #4042) Developer-visible changes: * JavaHL: allow 'status -u' to function properly (r1189190, -395) * don't put '\r' characters in our generate sql headers (r1189580) * properly define WIN64 on Windows x64 builds (r1188609) * better adherence to C89 in enum definitions (r1189665) * bump copyright year in Windows DLLs (r1189261) * log a better error when opening rep-cache.db fails (r1204610, -73)
dev-vcs/subversion-1.7.2 has been available in Progress Overlay since 2011-12-05.
ping!?
just commited 1.7.2, should be on rsync mirrors in some hours