How to get Subversion 1.14.2 or higher on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS?

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 12:20:35AM +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
> I need a version of subversion 1.14.2 or higher because the plaintext password
> cache is needed on my Ubuntu Server 22.04.5 LTS which is running subversion
> 1.14.1 now (where the plaintext store is unavailable).
> 
> So I would like to know if it is possible to install/upgrade subversion on that
> machine from the 24.04.1 Ubuntu apt repository?

This is generally not possible directly; it's moderately likely to
result in weird library conflicts, either straight away or later.

The safe approach to this is to backport the package from 24.04 to 22.04
in a dedicated repository, or get somebody to do it for you and commit
to keeping it up to date in response to security updates.  (I can do
this kind of thing on a paid-consulting basis; contact me off-list if
you're interested in that.)

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]