Bug#843711: biber: FTBFS (failing tests)

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:41:39AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > 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 :-(

% perl -MUnicode::Collate -le 'print $Unicode::Collate::VERSION, " ", Unicode::Collate->new->viewSortKey("Foo")'

gives this output with the versions available on jessie and sid:

1.04 [1680 176D 176D | 0020 0020 0020 | 0008 0002 0002 | FFFF FFFF FFFF |]

1.07 [1680 176D 176D | 0020 0020 0020 | 0008 0002 0002 | FFFF FFFF FFFF |]

1.14 [19A9 1AA1 1AA1 | 0020 0020 0020 | 0008 0002 0002 | FFFF FFFF FFFF |]

1.17 [1C60 1D58 1D58 | 0020 0020 0020 | 0008 0002 0002 | FFFF FFFF FFFF |]

So the U::C sort key generation has changed (again), and the biber test
suite hardcodes md5sums of the old sort keys.

Given https://github.com/plk/biber/commit/9bebd3ef0cb57b5ca4f15885d0cbfecc4939a835
I suspect biber just needs to adapt again.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org