From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/29] Add Biber Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:45:28 +0100 Message-ID: <871sxx273r.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20161123213522.2923-1-rekado@elephly.net> <20161126174603.GA15426@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cAlj6-00024b-BR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:45:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cAlj3-0000VZ-Ai for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:45:44 -0500 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:21309) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cAlj3-0000VM-1h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:45:41 -0500 In-reply-to: <20161126174603.GA15426@jasmine> 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari writes: > 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. Thanks for taking the time to look over the patches! >> (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? It builds but at runtime it will complain that the installed version of biblatex is incompatible according to the compatibility matrix in the biber documentation. Biblatex is part of texlive. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC http://elephly.net