1.8.x@HEAD plus the r1467440,r1467450,r1467481 group in STATUS behaves as follows in maintainer mode:
% $svnadmin upgrade / subversion/svnadmin/svnadmin.c:1925, subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c:1555, subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c:1461, subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c:1423, subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c:4120, subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c:3271: (apr_err=2) svnadmin: E000002: Can't open file '/format': No such file or directory % $svnadmin create / subversion/svnadmin/svnadmin.c:689, subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c:1345: (apr_err=SVN_ERR_DIR_NOT_EMPTY) svnadmin: E200011: Repository creation failed subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c:1217: (apr_err=SVN_ERR_DIR_NOT_EMPTY) svnadmin: E200011: Could not create top-level directory subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c:192, subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c:187: (apr_err=SVN_ERR_DIR_NOT_EMPTY) svnadmin: E200011: '/' exists and is non-empty % $svn upgrade / subversion/svn/upgrade-cmd.c:73, subversion/libsvn_client/upgrade.c:112, subversion/libsvn_wc/upgrade.c:2194, subversion/libsvn_wc/wc_db.c:15006: (apr_err=SVN_ERR_WC_INVALID_OP_ON_CWD) svn: E155019: Can't upgrade '/' as it is not a working copy root subversion/libsvn_wc/wc_db_util.c:134: (apr_err=2) svn: E000002: Working copy database '/.svn/wc.db' not found subversion/libsvn_wc/wc_db.c:15006: (apr_err=2) svn: E000002: Additional errors: subversion/libsvn_wc/old-and-busted.c:1201, subversion/libsvn_wc/adm_files.c:294, subversion/libsvn_subr/stream.c:850, subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c:3271: (apr_err=2) svn: E000002: Can't open file '/.svn/entries': No such file or directory % That implies the following release mode output (I didn't rebuild; I just ran g/^subversion/d): % $svnadmin upgrade / svnadmin: E000002: Can't open file '/format': No such file or directory % $svnadmin create / svnadmin: E200011: Repository creation failed svnadmin: E200011: Could not create top-level directory svnadmin: E200011: '/' exists and is non-empty % $svn upgrade / svn: E155019: Can't upgrade '/' as it is not a working copy root svn: E000002: Working copy database '/.svn/wc.db' not found svn: E000002: Additional errors: svn: E000002: Can't open file '/.svn/entries': No such file or directory % If someone does _not_ think that is a good state to release 1.8.0 in, please reply. Daniel