zeisberg@cepheus:~$ uname -a
Linux cepheus 2.6.19-rc2-g51018b0a #17 SMP Mon Oct 16 12:51:05 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

zeisberg@cepheus:~$ dpkg -l subversion libsvn1 libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.4
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libapr1        1.2.7-6        The Apache Portable Runtime Library
ii  libaprutil1    1.2.7+dfsg-2   The Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library
ii  libdb4.4       4.4.20-3       Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [runtime]
ii  libsvn1        1.4.0-5        Shared libraries used by Subversion
ii  subversion     1.4.0-5        Advanced version control system

zeisberg@cepheus:~/gsrc/git$ sh GIT-VERSION-GEN 
GIT_VERSION = 1.4.2.4.g3453

(BTW, why that:
zeisberg@cepheus:~/gsrc/git$ grep ^DEF_VER GIT-VERSION-GEN 
DEF_VER=v1.4.3.GIT
)

zeisberg@cepheus:~/gsrc/git/t$ sh t9100-git-svn-basic.sh 
Perl SVN libraries not found, tests requiring those will be skipped
define NO_SVN_TESTS to skip git-svn tests
*   ok 1: initialize git-svn
*   ok 2: import an SVN revision into git
*   ok 3: checkout from svn
*   ok 4: try a deep --rmdir with a commit
*   ok 5: detect node change from file to directory #1
*   ok 6: detect node change from directory to file #1
*   ok 7: detect node change from file to directory #2
*   ok 8: detect node change from directory to file #2
*   ok 9: remove executable bit from a file
*   ok 10: add executable bit back file
*   ok 11: executable file becomes a symlink to bar/zzz (file)
*   ok 12: new symlink is added to a file that was also just made executable
FATAL: Unexpected exit with code 9

There is a warning about installing SVN Perl libraries to get fewer
bugs.  Is that one of those?  Is that test failure already known?

The output of the verbose run is attached.

Best regards
Uwe

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Uwe Zeisberger

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