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- To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: RFP: biblatex -- Bibliographies in LaTeX using BibTeX for sorting only.
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:10:55 -0800
- Message-id: <eb97335b0712241910m7d2220f3i7bb13dda4c9cff57@mail.gmail.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
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Source: biblatex
Source-Version: 0.8-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
biblatex, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
biblatex_0.8-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/b/biblatex/biblatex_0.8-1.diff.gz
biblatex_0.8-1.dsc
to pool/main/b/biblatex/biblatex_0.8-1.dsc
biblatex_0.8-1_all.deb
to pool/main/b/biblatex/biblatex_0.8-1_all.deb
biblatex_0.8.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/b/biblatex/biblatex_0.8.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 457731@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jan Hauke Rahm <info@jhr-online.de> (supplier of updated biblatex package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:23:07 +0200
Source: biblatex
Binary: biblatex
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.8-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian TeX Task Force <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Jan Hauke Rahm <info@jhr-online.de>
Description:
biblatex - Bibliographies for LaTeX
Closes: 457731
Changes:
biblatex (0.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
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* Initial release. (Closes: #457731)
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