jhbuild svn issue

[Prof J C Nash <nashjc ncf ca>]

I've spent some time trying to downgrade subversion from version 
1.4.6dfsg1-4 without success. Apt was VERY persistent in keeping that 
version. Unfortunately, while I can checkout, for example, gnome-common 
using

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/gnome-common/trunk gnome-common

jhbuild gets "Network socket initialization failure".  On the web under 
debian bugs I find Peter Samuelson commenting on having such a problem 
and someone else saying they would look into the jhbuild script 
('jhbuild update' fails too).

I'd really rather not start from scratch to rewrite something like 
jhbuild. This looks like some sort of jhbuild / debian mismatch that 
could be nasty to resolve.

JN