Bug#687111: meld: version control browser fails with subversion 1.7

[Neil Williams]

Package: meld
Version: 1.6.0-1
Severity: important

After the working copy is upgraded to svn 1.7, all the .svn directories
vanish and this appears to be confusing meld.

I frequently start meld from the command line to see the changes within
a subdirectory of a working copy. I have previously seen *only* the
specified directory compared by meld. Once the working copy is upgraded
to svn 1.7, meld crawls all the way back up the tree to find the top
level .svn directory and then runs the comparison from the top directory.
On a very large repository, this stalls the browser and provides a
completely useless view of the entire repository instead of the
specific directory supplied on the command line.

subversion package:
subversion     1.7.5-1

It would be appreciated if this could be fixed in wheezy via backports
once the fix is in unstable - I know I'm going to need this functionality
once I migrate my development platform to Wheezy. As it only affects one
VCS, I don't see this as RC but if the fix is trivial, perhaps meld can
be unblocked for this important bug.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armel
i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages meld depends on:
ii  patch             2.6.1-3
ii  python            2.7.3-2
ii  python-glade2     2.24.0-3
ii  python-gobject-2  2.28.6-10
ii  python-gtk2       2.24.0-3

Versions of packages meld recommends:
ii  python-gconf           2.28.1+dfsg-1
pn  python-gnome2          <none>
ii  python-gtksourceview2  2.10.1-2
ii  yelp                   3.4.2-1

meld suggests no packages.

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