subversion 1.7.0 is coming. Many ports are not ready -- what should I do?

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Attila.
> You wrote 14 октября 2011 г., 18:32:34:
> 
>> Maybe renaming the current port to subversion16 and replace the svn
>> dependency of the above ports until they support 1.7?
>   One problem: library version was not bumped. So, if user has subversion-1.7.x installed, port will start to build (because svn_client-1.so.1 is installed), but failed later.
>   Add BUILD_CONFLICTS too? Maybe.

Hi Lev--

You're probably aware of this already, but the Subversion release
engineer wants to roll a 1.7.1 build soon-ish to fix a number of issues
that have cropped up in 1.7.0 testing.  I'm not sure how that will
interact with your plan to have Subversion 1.7.x in FreeBSD 9.0.

Thanks,

Bruce.

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