Bug#677202: biber packages version 0.9.9+git2012426-3 is beta and requires beta version of biblatex

[Danai SAE-HAN]

(Adding the Perl group in CC.)

Hi

I am currently in Beijing but return home this Sunday.
I think downgrading biber is the best option.

If that is too late, I am open to support a NMU.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

BR

-- 
Danai SAE-HAN

On 13-jun.-2012, at 07:15, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> Dear Danai, dear Jan,
> 
> How do we go forward with that? It is a bit a pain, I agree.
> You two guys should agree on what you are shipping.
> 
> Just for completeness: TeX Live 2012 is shipping:
> biblatex 1.7
> biber 0.9.9
> 
> So my tendency is to ship biber 0.9.9 also in Debian, but I leave
> it completeley up to you guys.
> 
> But please take action SOON!!!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Norbert
> 
> On Di, 12 Jun 2012, Miguel Telleria de Esteban wrote:
>> Package: biber
>> Version: 0.9.9+git2012426-3
>> Severity: grave
>> Justification: renders package unusable
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> Overview
>> --------
>> 
>> With the current Sid situation (even close to release) we have a
>> conflict between the versions of biber and biblatex.  Both come from
>> the same upstream author but are handled by different Debian Teams and
>> maintainers (Perl and Tex teams respectively).
>> 
>> Fortunately, the situation is easy to fix by either downgrading biber
>> package version (to the latest official 0.9.9 version) or upgrading
>> biblatex to the 2.0 beta version.  I have tested both scenarios and
>> both of them work fine.
>> 
>> How to reproduce the bug
>> ------------------------
>> 
>> In the current Sid scenario take a latex-biber document and perform:
>> 
>> pdflatex <file.tex>
>> biber <file>
>> pdflatex <file.tex>
>> 
>> and you will obtain the following error at the 2nd latex invocation:
>> 
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.22   \sortlist
>>  {entry}{}
>> 
>> (besides you also obtained warnings like this
>> 
>> Use of uninitialized value $llabel in concatenation (.) or string at
>> /usr/share/perl5/Biber.pm
>> 
>>    in the biber invocation).
>> 
>> 
>> Further evidence that this is a version conflict
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> *   Using biber --version reports 1.0 (beta), and going to the
>>    upstream site it says that biber 1.0 version requires biblatex
>>    beta version as well.
>> 
>>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/
>> 
>> *   The \sortlist undefined control sequence is reported to be a
>>    symptom of this version incompatibility.
>> 
>>    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3520829&group_id=228270&atid=1073792
>> 
>> 
>> Possible solutions
>> ------------------
>> 
>> I propose two scenarios (to be discuseed with upstream author between
>> the Perl and Tex Debian teams):
>> 
>> A)  Beta versions in Sid:
>>    -  Package the biblatex 2.0 beta in Sid replacing the 1.7.1 version.
>> 
>> B)  Official versions in Sid, beta versions in experimental.
>> 
>>    Move this biber version 0.9.9+git2012426-3 to experimental and
>>    downgrade the biber Sid version to 0.9.9 from either sourceforge
>>    or upstream git repository using the v0.9.9 tag.
>> 
>>    Optionally package biblatex 2.0beta in experimental.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>>     Miguel Telleria
> 
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> Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
> JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live & Debian Developer
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