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Nominated for xenial, but looking at the debdiff I'm a little bit scared (200k LOC changed).
And I'm worried about:
+       * Incompatible biblatex/biber version is now a fatal error.

what does it mean? I don't want such regressions on stable releases.

** Also affects: biber (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  [SRU] biber 2.4 to xenial

Status in biber package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in biber source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:
  Please SRU biber 2.4 to xenial.

  [Impact]:
  ========================
  Current biber version in xenial (2.3) is too old for texlive-bibtex-extra version (2015.20160320-1), as described in Bug 1565842 , making biber practically unusable in xenial.
  Backporting the most recent version (2.5) would still be a mistake since it requires a (>>= 2016) version of texlive-bibtex-extra.
  The proper solution is to backport the 2.4-1 version as was seen in debian.
  This has been verified to function properly in the aforementioned bug.

  [Test Case]:
  ========================
  Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.

  The original 2.4-1 version from debian/snapshot can be found here:
  http://snapshot.debian.org/package/biber/2.4-1/

  The PPA build that was used for testing can be found here:
  https://launchpad.net/~andrikos/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=xenial

  Probably, you can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
  $ backportpackage -u ppa:andrikos/ppa -s xenial -d xenial biber

  * xenial:
  [X] Package builds without modification
  [X] biber installs cleanly and runs

  [Regression Potential]:
  ========
  The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of biber. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the package still builds against the new biber. For reverse-dependencies, please test that the version of the package currently in the release still works with the new biber installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake.

  biber
  -----
  * science-typesetting
    [ ] xenial (Reverse-Recommends)
  * texlive-bibtex-extra
    [X] xenial (Reverse-Breaks)
  * med-typesetting
    [ ] xenial (Reverse-Suggests)

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