emacs creating backup~ files in svn sandbox

To the best of my recollection, on every other *n*x system I've used, emacs automatically refrains from making the backup files (ending with '~') when editing files inside a subversion sandbox. But on Raspbian wheezy, I see "SVN-1106" (example) in the information bar but emacs still drops the ~ files. Any idea why?

Thanks.

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This is controlled by a configuration setting. You may have been relying on a default that's not present in Raspbian.

I have no idea about the interaction between emacs and svn; I just turn off _all_ backup files with this in ~/.emacs :

(setq make-backup-files nil) (setq vc-cvs-stay-local nil)

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Well, I found the variable vc-make-backup-files, which is nil on both machines, & vc-handled-backends, which has the same value (RCS CVS SVN SCCS Bzr Git Hg Mtn Arch) on both.....

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Adam Funk

Well, whatever it was has been changed in Jessie (at least in emacs

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