Re: core-updates: biber

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 04:23:43PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> Ricardo added biber-2.5 in 253cdd6c1464c944be2418ee9161f5f5b57e0eee.
>> Ricardo, can you check if it's still necessary?
>
> I tried to find out myself, but the location of the relevant information
> is not documented in our packaging.

I added Biber 2.5 because the latest version is incompatible with our
version of “texlive”.

The comment above it says:

;; Our version of texlive comes with biblatex 3.4, which is only compatible
;; with biber 2.5 according to the compatibility matrix in the biber
;; documentation.

We haven’t yet updated the big texlive and texlive-bin packages to the
2017 versions.  (Actually, I have tested an update for the texlive-bin
package, but not for “texlive-texmf”.)

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.

(All of our small tex packages are from the 2017 release of TeX Live.
We really should just upgrade texlive-texmf and texlive-bin.)


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
-(define texlive-bin
+(define-public texlive-bin
   (package
    (name "texlive-bin")
-   (version "2016")
+   (version "20170520")
    (source
     (origin
      (method url-fetch)
-      (uri 
"ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2016/texlive-20160523b-source.tar.xz";)
-      (sha256 (base32
-               "1v91vahxlxkdra0qz3f132vvx5d9cx2jy84yl1hkch0agyj2rcx8"))))
+     (uri (string-append 
"ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/tex-archive/systems/";
+                         "texlive/Source/texlive-" version "-source.tar.xz"))
+     (sha256 (base32
+              "0m49ggzgx777nhziji3a5834nfsz87b7k5v546spr7m2kym35860"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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