biblatex and biber and biber updates

[Norbert Preining]

Dear all, especially Danai and Hauke,

with the help of a patch used in OpenSUSE I have now updated
and successfully build biber 1.7.

I have then also converted the svn biblatex to a git repository
(git.debian.org/git/debian-tex/biblatex.git) and imported biblatex
release 2.7a and build new packages for it.

TO complete (here I didn't the libtext-bibtex-perl update by now)
I have also build that.

Everything is available in source and binary for (amd64 only!)
at 
	deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ biber/
	deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ biber/
and pushed into the respective git repositories
(biblatex -> git.debian.org/git/debian-tex/biblatex.git
 biber    -> git.debian.org/git/debian-tex/biber-norb.git)

I cannot test them on my desktop system for now, as the perl
migration is in full power ... and will probably take ages.

If someone has time and energy to test in a chroot that would be
*REALLY* *REALLY* great.

Hauke: What is your stance concerning svn versus git? If you want
I move the changes I made to the svn side.

Danai: Have you decide where to put biber.git? Do you use my biber-norb.git?
Put it into debian-tex or the debian-perl part?


Let us fix that now, please, ... all the work I have done should/could 
have been done already quite some time ago by the *maintainers* ....
do you have interest in the packaging?

Norbert

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