(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
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Danai SAE-HAN
On 13-jun.-2012, at 07:15, Norbert Preining <prein...@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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