diff --git a/Doc/tools/cvsinfo.py b/Doc/tools/cvsinfo.py
deleted file mode 100644
index cc90fe5e2ae..00000000000
--- a/Doc/tools/cvsinfo.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-"""Utility class and function to get information about the CVS repository
-based on checked-out files.
-"""
-
-import os
-
-
-def get_repository_list(paths):
-    d = {}
-    for name in paths:
-        if os.path.isfile(name):
-            dir = os.path.dirname(name)
-        else:
-            dir = name
-        rootfile = os.path.join(name, "CVS", "Root")
-        root = open(rootfile).readline().strip()
-        if not d.has_key(root):
-            d[root] = RepositoryInfo(dir), [name]
-        else:
-            d[root][1].append(name)
-    return d.values()
-
-
-class RepositoryInfo:
-    """Record holding information about the repository we want to talk to."""
-    cvsroot_path = None
-    branch = None
-
-    # type is '', ':ext', or ':pserver:'
-    type = ""
-
-    def __init__(self, dir=None):
-        if dir is None:
-            dir = os.getcwd()
-        dir = os.path.join(dir, "CVS")
-        root = open(os.path.join(dir, "Root")).readline().strip()
-        if root.startswith(":pserver:"):
-            self.type = ":pserver:"
-            root = root[len(":pserver:"):]
-        elif ":" in root:
-            if root.startswith(":ext:"):
-                root = root[len(":ext:"):]
-            self.type = ":ext:"
-        self.repository = root
-        if ":" in root:
-            host, path = root.split(":", 1)
-            self.cvsroot_path = path
-        else:
-            self.cvsroot_path = root
-        fn = os.path.join(dir, "Tag")
-        if os.path.isfile(fn):
-            self.branch = open(fn).readline().strip()[1:]
-
-    def get_cvsroot(self):
-        return self.type + self.repository
-
-    _repository_dir_cache = {}
-
-    def get_repository_file(self, path):
-        filename = os.path.abspath(path)
-        if os.path.isdir(path):
-            dir = path
-            join = 0
-        else:
-            dir = os.path.dirname(path)
-            join = 1
-        try:
-            repodir = self._repository_dir_cache[dir]
-        except KeyError:
-            repofn = os.path.join(dir, "CVS", "Repository")
-            repodir = open(repofn).readline().strip()
-            repodir = os.path.join(self.cvsroot_path, repodir)
-            self._repository_dir_cache[dir] = repodir
-        if join:
-            fn = os.path.join(repodir, os.path.basename(path))
-        else:
-            fn = repodir
-        return fn[len(self.cvsroot_path)+1:]
-
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return "<RepositoryInfo for %r>" % self.get_cvsroot()
diff --git a/Doc/tools/findacks b/Doc/tools/findacks
deleted file mode 100755
index b54ea609bda..00000000000
--- a/Doc/tools/findacks
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,161 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-"""Script to locate email addresses in the CVS logs."""
-__version__ = '$Revision$'
-
-import os
-import re
-import sys
-import UserDict
-
-import cvsinfo
-
-
-class Acknowledgements(UserDict.UserDict):
-    def add(self, email, name, path):
-        d = self.data
-        d.setdefault(email, {})[path] = name
-
-
-def open_cvs_log(info, paths=None):
-    cvsroot = info.get_cvsroot()
-    cmd = "cvs -q -d%s log " % cvsroot
-    if paths:
-        cmd += " ".join(paths)
-    return os.popen(cmd, "r")
-
-
-email_rx = re.compile("<([a-z][-a-z0-9._]*@[-a-z0-9.]+)>", re.IGNORECASE)
-
-def find_acks(f, acks):
-    prev = ''
-    filename = None
-    MAGIC_WORDS = ('van', 'von')
-    while 1:
-        line = f.readline()
-        if not line:
-            break
-        if line.startswith("Working file: "):
-            filename = line.split(None, 2)[2].strip()
-            prev = line
-            continue
-        m = email_rx.search(line)
-        if m:
-            words = prev.split() + line[:m.start()].split()
-            L = []
-            while words \
-                  and (words[-1][0].isupper() or words[-1] in MAGIC_WORDS):
-                L.insert(0, words.pop())
-            name = " ".join(L)
-            email = m.group(1).lower()
-            acks.add(email, name, filename)
-        prev = line
-
-
-def load_cvs_log_acks(acks, args):
-    repolist = cvsinfo.get_repository_list(args or [""])
-    for info, paths in repolist:
-        print >>sys.stderr, "Repository:", info.get_cvsroot()
-        f = open_cvs_log(info, paths)
-        find_acks(f, acks)
-        f.close()
-
-
-def load_tex_source_acks(acks, args):
-    for path in args:
-        path = path or os.curdir
-        if os.path.isfile(path):
-            read_acks_from_tex_file(acks, path)
-        else:
-            read_acks_from_tex_dir(acks, path)
-
-
-def read_acks_from_tex_file(acks, path):
-    f = open(path)
-    while 1:
-        line = f.readline()
-        if not line:
-            break
-        if line.startswith(r"\sectionauthor{"):
-            line = line[len(r"\sectionauthor"):]
-            name, line = extract_tex_group(line)
-            email, line = extract_tex_group(line)
-            acks.add(email, name, path)
-
-
-def read_acks_from_tex_dir(acks, path):
-    stack = [path]
-    while stack:
-        p = stack.pop()
-        for n in os.listdir(p):
-            n = os.path.join(p, n)
-            if os.path.isdir(n):
-                stack.insert(0, n)
-            elif os.path.normpath(n).endswith(".tex"):
-                read_acks_from_tex_file(acks, n)
-
-
-def extract_tex_group(s):
-    c = 0
-    for i in range(len(s)):
-        if s[i] == '{':
-            c += 1
-        elif s[i] == '}':
-            c -= 1
-            if c == 0:
-                return s[1:i], s[i+1:]
-
-
-def print_acks(acks):
-    first = 1
-    for email, D in acks.items():
-        if first:
-            first = 0
-        else:
-            print
-        L = D.items()
-        L.sort()
-        prefname = L[0][1]
-        for file, name in L[1:]:
-            if name != prefname:
-                prefname = ""
-                break
-        if prefname:
-            print prefname, "<%s>:" % email
-        else:
-            print email + ":"
-        for file, name in L:
-            if name == prefname:
-                print "    " + file
-            else:
-                print "    %s (as %s)" % (file, name)
-
-
-def print_ack_names(acks):
-    names = []
-    for email, D in acks.items():
-        L = D.items()
-        L.sort()
-        prefname = L[0][1]
-        for file, name in L[1:]:
-            prefname = prefname or name
-        names.append(prefname or email)
-    def f(s1, s2):
-        s1 = s1.lower()
-        s2 = s2.lower()
-        return cmp((s1.split()[-1], s1),
-                   (s2.split()[-1], s2))
-    names.sort(f)
-    for name in names:
-        print name
-
-
-def main():
-    args = sys.argv[1:]
-    acks = Acknowledgements()
-    load_cvs_log_acks(acks, args)
-    load_tex_source_acks(acks, args)
-    print_ack_names(acks)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mksourcepkg b/Doc/tools/mksourcepkg
index cad2b442b05..4b21f7747f3 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mksourcepkg
+++ b/Doc/tools/mksourcepkg
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ import shutil
 import sys
 import tempfile
 
-import cvsinfo
-
 try:
     __file__
 except NameError:
@@ -79,42 +77,22 @@ def main():
      else:
           formats = ["gzip"]
      release = args[0]
-     cvstag = None
+     svntag = None
      if len(args) > 1:
-          cvstag = args[1]
+          svntag = args[1]
      tempdir = tempfile.mktemp()
      os.mkdir(tempdir)
      pkgdir = os.path.join(tempdir, "Python-Docs-" + release)
-     os.mkdir(pkgdir)
      pwd = os.getcwd()
      mydir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))
-     info = cvsinfo.RepositoryInfo(mydir)
-     cvsroot = info.get_cvsroot()
-     m = rx.match(cvsroot)
-     if m and anonymous:
-          # If this is an authenticated SourceForge repository, convert to
-          # anonymous usage for the export/checkout, since that avoids the
-          # SSH overhead.
-          group = m.group(1)
-          cvsroot = ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.%s.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/%s" \
-                    % (group, group)
-          # For some reason, SourceForge/CVS doesn't seem to care that we
-          # might not have done a "cvs login" to the anonymous server.
-          # That avoids a lot of painful gunk here.
      os.chdir(tempdir)
      if not quiet:
-          print "--- current directory is:", pkgdir
-     if cvstag:
-          run("cvs -d%s export -r %s -d Python-Docs-%s python/dist/src/Doc"
-              % (cvsroot, cvstag, release))
-     else:
-          run("cvs -Q -d%s checkout -d Python-Docs-%s python/dist/src/Doc"
-              % (cvsroot, release))
-          # remove CVS directories
-          for p in ('*/CVS', '*/*/CVS', '*/*/*/CVS'):
-               map(shutil.rmtree, glob.glob(p))
-     for f in ('.cvsignore', '*/.cvsignore'):
-          map(os.unlink, glob.glob(f))
+          print "--- current directory is:", tempdir
+     if not svntag:
+         svntag = "trunk"
+     svnbase = "http://svn.python.org/projects/python"
+     run("svn export %s/%s/Doc Python-Docs-%s"
+         % (svnbase, svntag, release))
 
      # Copy in the version informtation, if we're not just going to
      # rip it back out: