diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7252a350a9cd09df6e3bcc2e50b375288c16dec3..cce623c02b9b356a7d9b493ba876843620968a47 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ version 0.9.1 -- unreleased
 	added makecd ninjahelper
 		(thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
 	made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
+	changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
+	        the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
 
 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
 	*** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
diff --git a/examples/example.svn b/examples/example.svn
index e849706947b3471d827fe973619cf66e90d85677..ea4360130e2687554ed9eef30a81c8035c6ff448 100644
--- a/examples/example.svn
+++ b/examples/example.svn
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@
 # tmp = /var/backups/svn.tmp
 
 ## the hotbackup program to use.
+## svnadmin hotcopy now exists, the following script is located
+## in /usr/share/doc/subversion/examples now if you wish to use
+## it instead
 # HOTBACKUP = /usr/lib/subversion/hot-backup.py
 
 ## the name of the vserver containing svn, if using vservers
-# vsname =
\ No newline at end of file
+# vsname =
diff --git a/handlers/svn b/handlers/svn
index 6ac54029547665829ba01b09ccbd47a19e18d784..9a611c0f1233d90125c214a5090e02c20002693c 100644
--- a/handlers/svn
+++ b/handlers/svn
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 getconf src /var/lib/svn
 getconf dest /var/backups/svn
 getconf tmp /var/backups/svn.tmp
-getconf HOTBACKUP /usr/lib/subversion/hot-backup.py
+getconf HOTBACKUP "/usr/bin/svnadmin hotcopy"
 getconf vsname	
 
 error=0