#1008651 meld: Cannot use meld with subversion

#1008651#5
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2022-03-30 07:15:31 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Meld gives the following traceback when trying to compare a svn directory (by
calling 'meld .' from a svn working copy):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/meld/task.py", line 110, in iteration
    ret = task()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/meld/vc/_vc.py", line 277, in
refresh_vc_state
    self._update_tree_state_cache(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/meld/vc/svn.py", line 188, in
_update_tree_state_cache
    for entry in (t for t in target.getchildren() if t.tag == "entry"):
AttributeError: 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element' object has no attribute
'getchildren'

It seems this bug has been fixed in meld 3.20.3:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/issues/556
Is it possible to upgrade meld in debian stable?