I've installed subversion in a chroot from unstable. It suddenly refused to remember my password. There was no clear indication for why. After editing all config files I could think of it still silently refused to remember my password.

It turns out this feature needs to be enabled in ./configure using --enable-plaintext-password-storage

I am a long tiem svn user. I have situations where storing password in plain text is okay from security viewpoint (e.g. encrypted file system). Enabling this in configure will not force users to store passwords in plain; the svn client even warns and asks the user about this when it is about to happen.

Please enable this feature so my workflow will not break after an upgrade.

Dear packager!

This is biting me more and more often. It's real annoying that I have to
compile from source with such extensive dependencies because of this one
missing configure setting. For me, severity of this bug is becoming major.

Thanks for your patience.  I intended to follow up on this, but then it
fell off my radar.  I'll get back to this in the next few days.

Cheers,

Hello,

Bug #995692 in subversion reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/jamessan/subversion/-/commit/48c9a8ca6cca5a66170294f953c20c82ba0e1f63
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Re-enable the ability to store plaintext passwords

There are valid use cases where having to use a non-plaintext store is
not practical, so outright disabling the functionality does more harm
than good.

Re-enabling this capability does not make it the default, rather just
provides functionality that had existed for decades prior.

Upstream has also discussed this[0] and are looking into[1] re-enabling
the functionality along with some additional UX to help manage the
credentials.

[0]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/b6g2hx2m3s117wcmno08opl874ons3q8
[1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/shzxh04l493qnj8pdt8vl0x4gkjrkvcy

Closes: #995692
Signed-off-by: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
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Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/995692

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
subversion, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 995692@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> (supplier of updated subversion package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:03:54 -0400
Source: subversion
Architecture: source
Version: 1.14.2-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
Changed-By: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
Closes: 995692
Changes:
 subversion (1.14.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Re-enable the ability to store plaintext passwords (Closes: #995692)
   * Bump debhelper-compat to 13
   * Adjust lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library overrides
   * Adjust package-contains-upstream-installation-documentation override
   * Document uninstalled files in debian/not-installed
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