Bug#1008651: meld: Cannot use meld with subversion

[Cedric Boudinet]

Package: meld
Version: 3.20.2-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: boudinpg at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

Meld gives the following traceback when trying to compare a svn directory (by
calling 'meld .' from a svn working copy):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/meld/task.py", line 110, in iteration
    ret = task()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/meld/vc/_vc.py", line 277, in
refresh_vc_state
    self._update_tree_state_cache(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/meld/vc/svn.py", line 188, in
_update_tree_state_cache
    for entry in (t for t in target.getchildren() if t.tag == "entry"):
AttributeError: 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element' object has no attribute
'getchildren'

It seems this bug has been fixed in meld 3.20.3:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/issues/556
Is it possible to upgrade meld in debian stable?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not
set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages meld depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.38.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0                         3.24.11-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module                      0.30-7
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.24-4+deb11u2
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1                       3.24.11-2
ii  patch                                        2.7.6-7
ii  python3                                      3.9.2-3
ii  python3-cairo                                1.16.2-4+b2
ii  python3-gi                                   3.38.0-2
ii  python3-gi-cairo                             3.38.0-2

Versions of packages meld recommends:
ii  yelp  3.38.3-1

meld suggests no packages.