Bug#457731: RFP: biblatex -- Bibliographies in LaTeX using BibTeX for sorting only.

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw@panix.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

I'd like a Debian package of biblatex.  It is still somewhat experimental,
but the author does consider it ready for widespread testing; so it should
have its own package rather than being included in texlive-bibtex-extra
or such.

The long description below is a verbatim quote from CTAN.

* Package name    : biblatex
  Version         : 0.7
  Upstream Author : Philipp Lehman <plehman@gmx.net>
* URL             :
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html
* License         : LPPL
  Programming Lang: TeX
  Description     : Bibliographies using BibTeX for sorting only (EXPERIMENTAL).

 The biblatex package is a complete reimplementation of the bibliographic
 facilities provided by LaTeX in conjunction with BibTeX. It redesigns
 the way in which LaTeX interacts with BibTeX at a fairly fundamental
 level. With biblatex, BibTeX is only used to sort the bibliography
 and to generate labels. Instead of being implemented in BibTeX's style
 files, the formatting of the bibliography is entirely controlled by TeX
 macros. Good working knowledge in LaTeX should be sufficient to design
 new bibliography and citation styles -- there is no need to learn
 BibTeX's postfix stack language. Just like the bibliography styles,
 all citation commands may be freely (re)defined.
 .
 The package needs e-TeX, and uses the author's etoolbox package.
 .
 Apart from the features unique to biblatex, the package also incorporates
 core features of the following packages: babelbib, bibtopic, bibunits,
 chapterbib, cite, inlinebib, mlbib, multibib, splitbib. There are also
 some conceptual parallels to the natbib and amsrefs packages. The biblatex
 package supports split bibliographies, multiple bibliographies within one
  document, and separate lists of bibliographic shorthands. Bibliographies
 may be subdivided into parts (by chapter, by section, etc.) and/or
 segmented by topics (by type, by keyword, etc.). The package is fully
 localized and can interface with the babel package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash