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. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
