From: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: How to keep biber working
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:09:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e4yi41c.fsf@jlicht.xyz> (raw)
Guix,
I've noticed some time ago that the biber version that we currently have
is incompatible with the texlive revision we have packaged.
Incidentally, since the latest core-updates merge, biber does not pass
its test suite anymore due to the hardcoded
`perl-unicode-collate'-related hashes. I think we need a more
sustainable (and dynamic) fix for this, as this is not the first time
this has happened.
As far as I know, biber has no dependents other than itself. I could
also downgrade it 2.11 so it works with our texlive packages
again. Should I simply revert the "gnu: biber: Update to 2.12." commit,
or only adjust the [source] and [version] fields of the biber package?
I can push a short-term fix that involves disabling the test suite for
biber nonetheless, as this seems to be required for both version 2.12
and 2.11.
Thoughts?
next reply other threads:[~2019-10-21 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-21 14:09 Jelle Licht [this message]
2019-10-21 15:11 ` How to keep biber working Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-21 15:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-21 17:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-21 17:30 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-21 19:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-21 19:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-21 21:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-22 8:04 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-22 9:24 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-10-22 9:27 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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