From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Subject: bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:44:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2oaa6yb.fsf@rthelemy.eu> References: <877fm2klq5.fsf@chartreuse.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87wpt2qcsa.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAHsc-0002ke-TE for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 08:49:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAHsb-0005bR-Ub for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 08:49:02 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:48763) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAHsb-0005bN-Qp for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 08:49:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aAHsb-00013M-JM for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 08:49:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87wpt2qcsa.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 21806@debbugs.gnu.org Hi, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Sorry for the late reply. My turn to apologise for the delay ! > Maybe we should make it a separate package? > Is the biblatex-biber-1.8.tar.gz available separately upstream? Apparently, there has been some discussion about whether or not to include biber in the Tex Live build due to its high requirements. The current state of affair is as follow=C2=B9 : Special considerations for biber TeX Live includes biber (a BibTeX replacement for BibLaTeX users) executables. These executables bundle the many Perl modules which biber requires, using the Par::Packer mechanism. This process is described in the biber documentation; it isn't feasible to incorporate it in the standard TL build. So, TL builders who wish to provide it should make and upload the binaries as part of the upstream Biber project. These binaries are then distributed to CTAN (requires a manual request to the CTAN maintainers, usually done by the Biber maintainers), and TL imports from CTAN as usual. So I don't know if building it from source is feasible for Guix. I could try to have a look, but have zero experience with Guix or Perl build system. Anyway, the biber package is indeed available on sourceforge=C2=B2. There is also a compatibility issue between biblatex and biber (something like biblatex 2.x =E2=86=92 biber 1.x) that we should watch out for. 1: Described on the Tex Live website https://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html= #biber 2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/1.8/= biblatex-biber.tar.gz -- Cl=C3=A9ment