From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: core-updates: biber Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:47:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87shh3nrja.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20170710204706.GA28204@jasmine.lan> <20170714165009.GA11090@jasmine.lan> <20170726063619.GC12553@macbook42.flashner.co.il> <878tja6ykp.fsf@gnu.org> <20170727220709.GA16692@jasmine.lan> <8760ecjls1.fsf@gnu.org> <20170730202343.GA17287@jasmine.lan> <20170730225629.GA4029@jasmine.lan> <87k22p3w3j.fsf@elephly.net> <20170805192607.GA19551@jasmine.lan> <20170805223848.GA2066@jasmine.lan> <87h8xlxc6u.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1den4P-0003qC-5B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:48:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1den4K-0003zF-2X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:48:05 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1den4J-0003y1-Qz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:48:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h8xlxc6u.fsf@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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 03:26:07PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 09:26:56AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >>> > If we upgrade those two, I’m pretty sure we won’t need Biber 2.5 any >>> > more and can replace it with what is currently biber-next. >>> > >>> > I would suggest not to spend too much time on Biber 2.5 as it is on its >>> > way out — it just needs a texlive-texmf update. >>> >>> Okay, I'm working on this today. >> >> The attached patches update texlive to 2017 and remove biber-2.5. >> Ricardo, can you check if biber@2.7 works with these patches? > > These patches don’t apply cleanly to core-updates since the merge of > master a couple of hours ago. I cannot rebase and test them today, but > I can give it a try on Monday. […] For some reason even the updated patches didn’t apply correctly, so I applied them manually (maybe it’s a problem on my end). I’ve tested biber on one of my old projects and it works as expected: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ biber assignment1 Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/}(\pM+\pL){ <-- HERE (?!\pL+\\)/ at /gnu/store/b2l7hrs9cr4ky99j3nx582wl2v7ngk6y-biber-2.7/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm line 316. INFO - This is Biber 2.7 INFO - Logfile is 'assignment1.blg' INFO - Reading 'assignment1.bcf' INFO - Found 3 citekeys in bib section 0 INFO - Processing section 0 INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'refs.bib' for section 0 INFO - Decoding LaTeX character macros into UTF-8 INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'refs.bib' INFO - Overriding locale 'en-US' defaults 'variable = shifted' with 'variable = non-ignorable' INFO - Overriding locale 'en-US' defaults 'normalization = NFD' with 'normalization = prenormalized' INFO - Sorting list 'apa/global/' of type 'entry' with scheme 'apa' and locale 'en-US' INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en-US' INFO - Writing 'assignment1.bbl' with encoding 'UTF-8' INFO - Output to assignment1.bbl --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The warning about “unescaped left brace in regex” is ugly, but it doesn’t break anything. I’ve pushed the three commits to core updates (c97fbf55e). Thanks! -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net