From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/29] Add Biber Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:46:03 -0500 Message-ID: <20161126174603.GA15426@jasmine> References: <20161123213522.2923-1-rekado@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cAh3D-00045s-I4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:46:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cAh38-00019K-MT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:46:11 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:57628) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cAh38-00018T-Bk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:46:06 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161123213522.2923-1-rekado@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:34:53PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Guix, > > this patch set adds Biber, the bibliography backend for biblatex. It's > actually supposed to be part of the Texlive distribution, but our Texlive > package only comes with a source tarball of Biber. Overall LGTM. > (I use Biber for Unicode references in APA style.) > > All packages were linted. The only unusual thing here is that the latest > Biber doesn't work with the 2016 Texlive distribution, so I named the latest > Biber "biber-next" and added "biber-2.5" with package name "biber", so that > users installing "biber" with "texlive" get the right thing. I'm curious, what happens if one tries biber-next? Does it build?