externals are not created unless depth=infinity

Hello,

I wonder that are the chances to get a fix for
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3311 in the next
1.6 ?
If not the fix that would fetch externals for depth=immediates or
depth=files or even depth=empty (if externals dir is explicitly
specified) then at least information about available externals in "svn
st -v" or "svn info" or "svn ls -v".

Please, CC. Thanks.

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anatoly t.