** Description changed: Please SRU biber 2.4 to xenial. [Impact]: ======================== - Current biber version in xenial (2.3) is too old for texlive-bibtex-extra version (2015.20160320-1), as described in Bug 1565842 , making biber practically unusable in xenial. + Current biber version in xenial (2.3) is too old for texlive-bibtex-extra version (2015.20160320-1), as described in Bug 1565842 , making biber practically uninstallable in xenial. Backporting the most recent version (2.5) would still be a mistake since it requires a (>>= 2016) version of texlive-bibtex-extra. The proper solution is to backport the 2.4-1 version as was seen in debian. This has been verified to function properly in the aforementioned bug. [Test Case]: ======================== Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing. The original 2.4-1 version from debian/snapshot can be found here: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/biber/2.4-1/ The PPA build that was used for testing can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~andrikos/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=xenial Probably, you can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage: $ backportpackage -u ppa:andrikos/ppa -s xenial -d xenial biber * xenial: [X] Package builds without modification [X] biber installs cleanly and runs [Regression Potential]: ======== The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of biber. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the package still builds against the new biber. For reverse-dependencies, please test that the version of the package currently in the release still works with the new biber installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake. biber ----- * science-typesetting [ ] xenial (Reverse-Recommends) * texlive-bibtex-extra [X] xenial (Reverse-Breaks) * med-typesetting [ ] xenial (Reverse-Suggests)
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