<p dir="ltr">Hi Norbert</p>
<p dir="ltr">A SuSE maintainer has made a pull request on Github a few weeks ago but unfortunately the upstream author of the Data Diver Perl package has not approved this move yet.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As long as the license issue is not solved, not a single distribution can make use of Biber because of this dependency.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I raised the issue with the Biber authors but Diver is a. integral part of Biber.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Maybe we have to figure out some non-free workaround?</p>
<p dir="ltr">BR</p>
<p dir="ltr">-- <br>
Danai</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 29 Aug 2013 11:00, "Norbert Preining" <<a href="mailto:preining@logic.at">preining@logic.at</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Mo, 05 Aug 2013, Norbert Preining wrote:<br>
> > Option A. Does anyone object that<br>
> > /srv/<a href="http://git.debian.org/git/debian-tex/biber-norb.git" target="_blank">git.debian.org/git/debian-tex/biber-norb.git</a> is moved to<br>
> > /srv/<a href="http://git.debian.org/git/debian-tex/biber.git" target="_blank">git.debian.org/git/debian-tex/biber.git</a>, i.e. that it remains on<br>
> > the debian-tex site?<br>
> > Option B. Or do you prefer the GIT repository to reside in pkg-perl?<br>
><br>
><br>
> I don't mind one or the other.<br>
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Ping pong ... any progress.<br>
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If we keep biber and biblatex in this state I really feel pity<br>
for Debian ...<br>
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I myself have switched to use upstream TeX Live because at the<br>
moment I cannot user biber and biblatex...<br>
<br>
Norbert<br>
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