Bug#843711: biber: FTBFS (failing tests)

[Norbert Preining]

Hi everyone,

thanks for digging into this.

> > > Seems to be a change in libunicode-collate-perl 1.17. Removing the
> > > separate package (so it falls back to using the modules shipped in the
> > > Perl core packages at version 1.14) makes the tests work again.

Interstingly, a former version of perl's libunicode-collate-perl did not
allow to successfully build biber, so I added this dep. Now it is the
other way round.

> What just might work is dropping the versioned
> dependencies on libunicode-collate-perl from biber (as per

I will do that.

> and build (and possibly runtime?) conflicting on libunicode-collate-perl:
> >= 1.17~ or something like that.

And that.

> But that'd be just bandaid IMO and a real fix would either revert the
> relevant Unicode::Collate change if it's a bug, or adapt biber to work

If one could find out what the relevant change is. It is rather unfortunate
that the two version of the same things don't produce the same :-(

All the best

Norbert

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