biblatex and biber

[Norbert Preining]

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to ping again how the status is .. is there *any* progress
with respect to Data::Diver? What are the problems?

It cannot be completely unfree I guess.

We are far from release now and it would be nice to see halfway
recent packages of biber/biblatex at some point, otherwise
Debian will not be able to be used for many modern 
documents, which is *not* what I want.

On Mo, 18 Feb 2013, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am afraid that packaging Biber will take a bit longer than expected.
> It depends on packages such as Data::Diver.  Gregor (thanks) has
> contacted the upstream author to include some licensing information,
> but there has been no update yet.
> 
> I will ask the upstream Biber authors to consider using a different
> Perl package or technique, because I suppose that Debian will not be
> the only distribution that needs some valid licensing information.
> 
> If some of you really feel adventurous and need Biber 1.5 instead of
> the packaged 0.9 version, I have updated the Debian GIT repository of
> the Biber package to a more recent version.  Given that not all Perl
> dependencies have been packaged and uploaded yet, you may want to
> install some CPAN modules on your local machine and remove some
> entries in d/control.
> 
> Thank you for your patience, and let us hope Biber 1.5 will be
> packaged soon with all its shiny new dependencies.  :-)

Norbert

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