biblatex and biber

[Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐)]

Hi Norbert

On 14 Jul 2013 18:58, "Norbert Preining" <preining at logic.at> wrote:
>
> Hi Danai,
>
> On So, 14 Jul 2013, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote:
> > Earlier this week I have upgraded the Biber GIT on Debian to version
1.7.
> > But it needs Perl 5.16, Biblatex 2.7 and other dependencies.
>
> Ok, perl is a breaker again. Why does it need perl 5.16? ANyway.

No idea.

> Biblatex is more or less under control, we can upload it at any time.

Cool.

> > I severely struggled with GIT last week.  If I get version 1.6 of
Biblatex,
> > I do not know how to do so on the Debian GIT except to remove almost
> > everything from the 'master' branch and manually import v1.6.  This
sucks.
>
> What do you need? biber 1.6 I guess, not biblatex 1.6.

Sorry, my mistake: Biber v1.6.

> And where do you want to get it from? From upstream git or from tar ball?

Upstream GIT would be nice, but I have no idea how to do that with gbp or
any of the other tools.

> If you have already included 1.7, thenn you have to get a new upstream
> tarball and go back to 1.6, or use branches.

I am afraid of using GIT branches.  I always get the wrong stuff in GIT,
probably because its workflow is unknown to me.

> Let me know *what* you want ot achieve!
>
> I don't know what you want to do.

I would like to revert to an earlier upstream version of Biber with fewer
extra dependencies.  And then build a Debian package out of it, preferably
using Debian GIT and some commands + arguments that make sense.

> And - for Data::Diver, I guess that is still a hard dependency, right?

Unfortunately yes.

BR

-- 
Danai
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