After upgrade from etch to lenny, libapache2-svn stops to provide access
for SVN-clients. Updates/checkouts are denied with the following message:

    svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/~philipp/svn/xxx'
    svn: PROPFIND of '/~philipp/svn/xxx': 403 Forbidden (https://xxx)

DAV-access via web-browser is still possible!

Hi,

I have the exact same problem. SVN-client stops working under those
circumstances, but DAV-access via web browser is indeed still available.

However, it's not 100 % reproducible, as some of my repositories
stopped working with the upgrade to Debian, and some others still
work. Besides, the configuration for those different repositories is
exactly the same.

I think it is pretty urgent. Thank you very much for your efforts.

Cheers,