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Message #03113
[Bug 1589644] Re: [SRU] biber 2.4 to xenial
LocutusOfBorg: Version 2.5 is incompatible with TexLive in Ubuntu 16.04
LTS:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/biber/+bug/1565842/comments/22
** Description changed:
Please SRU biber 2.4 to xenial.
[Impact]:
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- 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 uninstallable in xenial.
+ 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 uninstallable 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.
+
+ The bug has attracted a lot of attention with 68 people marked as
+ affected as of June 13. It may meet the criteria for "High" severity
+ since it "Has a severe impact on a small portion of Ubuntu users
+ (estimated)" and "Prevents the application or any dependencies from
+ functioning correctly at all".
+
+ [Changes]:
+ ========================
+ 2.4 (2016-03-01)
+ * Misc bug fixes
+ * There is now a 64-bit windows build built on windows 10
+ * Biblatexml datasources now support sourcemapping and have a schema
+ automatically generated from the datamodel. See new biber options
+ 'validate-bltxml' and 'no-bltxml-schema' in --help output.
+ * New functionality in sourcemaps for creating new entries and
+ looping over specified fields.
+ * Sorting key used to sort names is now customisable. See
+ \DeclareSortingNamekeyScheme in biblatex manual.
+ * Support for Zotero RDF/XML and Endnote removed. These were
+ experimental and messy.
+ https://github.com/plk/biber/blob/dev/Changes
[Test Case]:
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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]:
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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
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* science-typesetting
[ ] xenial (Reverse-Recommends)
* texlive-bibtex-extra
[X] xenial (Reverse-Breaks)
* med-typesetting
[ ] xenial (Reverse-Suggests)
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