Bug#826714: jessie-pu: package biber/1.9-3+deb8u1
On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:54:56PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:00:18PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 10:34 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > As per #826667 the last perl update unfortunately broke biber too
> > > (at least it causes a test failure; the actual cause is a bit unclear,
> > > but the fix is taken straight from the upstream perl 5.22 fixes).
> >
> > Do we know what the specific failure is? It wasn't very clear from the
> > log (or I was misreading).
>
> I don't think anyone really knows more than what's on the bug log.
> There was some suggestion that really the bug is in perl, but I don't
> think it's been reported as such upstream - and it does seem to only
> affect this particular case.
I think the root cause is in libunicode-linebreak-perl, now filed as
#826932.
IMO updating biber in jessie to work around this (like it already does
in sid/stretch) is the safest thing to do, but YMMV of course.
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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