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Subject: Re: Apache Subversion 1.7.0-rc4 Released
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From: Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org>
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:50:40 +0100
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To: Hyrum Wright <hwright@apache.org>

The INSTALL still talks about the deps package...
(line 193).

Can you confirm that the INSTALL is accurate please?

Barry


On 28 Sep 2011, at 17:26, Hyrum Wright wrote:

> I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.7.0-rc4.
> Please choose the mirror closest to you by visiting:
> 
>    http://subversion.apache.org/download/#pre-releases
> 
> The SHA1 checksums are:
> 
>    181324f85926570b4923bb79df7ef8fe3764b9be subversion-1.7.0-rc4.tar.bz2
>    d7beaed69dccaf23dd30eb68d7c91f7f9d7b8202 subversion-1.7.0-rc4.zip
>    e5118c3f9b1585fa89209a174193189856a57cb2 subversion-1.7.0-rc4.tar.gz
> 
> PGP Signatures are available at:
> 
>    http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.0-rc4.tar.bz2.asc
>    http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.0-rc4.tar.gz.asc
>    http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.0-rc4.zip.asc
> 
> For this release, the following people have provided PGP signatures:
> 
>   C. Michael Pilato [1024D/1706FD6E] with fingerprint:
>    20BF 14DC F02F 2730 7EA4  C7BB A241 06A9 1706 FD6E
>   Paul T. Burba [1024D/53FCDC55] with fingerprint:
>    E630 CF54 792C F913 B13C  32C5 D916 8930 53FC DC55
>   Julian Foad [1024D/353E25BC] with fingerprint:
>    6604 5A4B 43BC F994 7777  5728 351F 33E4 353E 25BC
>   Hyrum K. Wright [1024D/4E24517C] with fingerprint:
>    3324 80DA 0F8C A37D AEE6  D084 0B03 AE6E 4E24 517C
>   Philip Martin [2048R/ED1A599C] with fingerprint:
>    A844 790F B574 3606 EE95  9207 76D7 88E1 ED1A 599C
>   Johan Corveleyn [4096R/010C8AAD] with fingerprint:
>    8AA2 C10E EAAD 44F9 6972  7AEA B59C E6D6 010C 8AAD
>   Stefan Sperling [1024D/F59D25F0] with fingerprint:
>    B1CF 1060 A1E9 34D1 9E86  D6D6 E5D3 0273 F59D 25F0
>   Mark Phippard [1024D/035A96A9] with fingerprint:
>    D315 89DB E1C1 E9BA D218  39FD 265D F8A0 035A 96A9
> 
> We anticipate this to be the last pre-release prior to the the release
> of Subversion 1.7.0.  It is free of known serious issues, and barring
> any critical issues found before then, we anticipate the final
> Subversion 1.7.0 release to happen on Oct. 11.
> 
> As a note to operating system distro packagers: while we wish to have
> this release candidate widely tested, we do not feel that it is ready
> for packaging and providing to end-users through a distro package
> system.  Packaging a release candidate poses many problems, the
> biggest being that our policy lets us break compatibility between the
> release candidate and the final release, if we find something serious
> enough.  Having many users depending on a release candidate through
> their distro would cause no end of pain and frustration that we do not
> want to have to deal with.  However, if your distro has a branch that
> is clearly labeled as containing experimental and often broken
> software, and explicitly destined to consenting developers and
> integrators only, then we're okay with packaging the release candidate
> there.  Just don't let it near the end users please.
> 
> Release notes for the 1.7.x release series may be found at:
> 
>    http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html
> 
> You can find the list of changes between 1.7.0-rc4 and earlier versions at:
> 
>    http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.7.0-rc4/CHANGES
> 
> Questions, comments, and bug reports to users@subversion.apache.org.
> 
> Thanks,