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]: ======================== - 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]: ======================== 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) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589644 Title: [SRU] biber 2.4 to xenial To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/biber/+bug/1589644/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
