[Bug 980087] Re: Update to 1.6.18 to fix fsfs repository corruption issues

[Max Bowsher]

I've sent a mail to ubuntu-devel about the unique challenges of updating subversion in precise right now:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-April/035045.html

I've prepared a PPA build of the package:
https://launchpad.net/~svn/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.series_filter=precise

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Title:
  Update to 1.6.18 to fix fsfs repository corruption issues

Status in “subversion” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Subversion 1.6.18 was released today with three fsfs repository
  corruption fixes and some client side fixes.  The fsfs repository
  fixes:

      * fix potential corruption on 32-bit FSFS with large files (r1230212)
      * fix a rare source of FSFS corruption (r1240752)
      * fix non-fatal FSFS corruption bug with concurrent commits (issue #4129)

  Other fixes:
      * reject invalid svn:mergeinfo at commit time over DAV (issue #3953) 
      * fix reintegrate merge regression introduced in 1.6.13 (issue #3957)
      * make the stderr output of the post-commit hook XML-safe (r893478)
      * plug a memory leak in the bdb backend (r1205726)
      * server-side performance fix for "log -g" (r1152282)
      * fix description of svndumpfilter's --targets option (r1151911)
      * fix datastream corruption during resumed transfer in ra_serf (r1154733)
      * fix a crash in ra_svn SASL authentication (r1166555, -678)
      * make website links point to subversion.apache.org (r896893, -901, r915036)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: subversion 1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Apr 12 10:25:41 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120122)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: subversion
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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