Bug#843711: biber: FTBFS (failing tests)

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 09:10:57AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> forwarded 843711 https://github.com/plk/biber/issues/149
> thanks
> 
> Hi Santiago,
> 
> the actual errors are:
> # -      \\field{sortinithash}{0aa614ace9f3a40ef5a67e7f7a184048}
> # +      \\field{sortinithash}{8343b463aacf48517c044b4d2c9c45ed}
> 
> all of them.
> 
> That means that some perl update broke biber building as it
> did built when I uploaded it.
> 
> I have contacted upstream concerning this change, and include
> the perl group in case they have an idea.
> 
> What happens is that first a "sortinitcollator" is computed by:
> 	Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(locale => $sortlist->get_sortscheme->{locale}, level => 1)
> and then the sortkey is collated and hashed
> 	md5_hex($self->{sortinitcollator}->viewSortKey($sinit));
> 
> It seems something in the locale handline has changed.
> 
> Anyway, I hope to get an answer from upstream or perl group soon.

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.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org