Current biber version is incompatible with biblatex

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  • Julien Lepiller
  • Ludovic Courtès
  • Mikhail Tsykalov
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Mikhail Tsykalov wrote on 19 May 2020 13:23
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
07473605-118d-5fd4-686f-81e60a63e672@gmail.com
When running biber the following error appears:

ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.5, expected version
3.4.
This means that your biber (2.11) and biblatex (3.12) versions are
incompatible.
See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 29 May 2020 17:38
(name . Mikhail Tsykalov)(address . tsymsh@gmail.com)(address . 41400@debbugs.gnu.org)
875zce3g5k.fsf@gnu.org
Hi,

Mikhail Tsykalov <tsymsh@gmail.com> skribis:

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> When running biber the following error appears:
>
> ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.5, expected
> version 3.4.
> This means that your biber (2.11) and biblatex (3.12) versions are
> incompatible.
> See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.

Not long ago, I did this:

commit 40fd909e3ddee2c46a27a4fe92ed49d3e7ffb413
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Fri Apr 24 16:17:38 2020 +0200

gnu: biber: Downgrade to 2.11.

Biber 2.12 is incompatible with biblatex 3.11, which is what's currently
packaged. This is a followup to 41a010875ba4108e666f11fc111cf5bb5dcf5464.

* gnu/packages/tex.scm (biber): Downgrade to 2.11.

However, it seems that biblatex has been updated in the meantime.

Could you check whether reverting the commit above fixes the problem for
you?

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Julien Lepiller wrote on 29 May 2020 18:07
(address . 41400@debbugs.gnu.org)
1B3D07D4-EC69-46AB-82A7-1AD75FA793AB@lepiller.eu
Le 29 mai 2020 11:38:31 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
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>Hi,
>
>Mikhail Tsykalov <tsymsh@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> When running biber the following error appears:
>>
>> ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.5, expected
>> version 3.4.
>> This means that your biber (2.11) and biblatex (3.12) versions are
>> incompatible.
>> See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.
>
>Not long ago, I did this:
>
> commit 40fd909e3ddee2c46a27a4fe92ed49d3e7ffb413
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri Apr 24 16:17:38 2020 +0200
>
> gnu: biber: Downgrade to 2.11.
>
>Biber 2.12 is incompatible with biblatex 3.11, which is what's
>currently
>packaged. This is a followup to
>41a010875ba4108e666f11fc111cf5bb5dcf5464.
>
> * gnu/packages/tex.scm (biber): Downgrade to 2.11.
>
>However, it seems that biblatex has been updated in the meantime.
>
>Could you check whether reverting the commit above fixes the problem
>for
>you?
>
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.

We should add a comment to the biber package toqwarn about this. Wdyt?
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 30 May 2020 15:55
(name . Julien Lepiller)(address . julien@lepiller.eu)
87mu5pv86a.fsf@gnu.org
Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

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> We should add a comment to the biber package toqwarn about this. Wdyt?

Yes, definitely.

Ludo’.
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Mikhail Tsykalov wrote on 30 May 2020 16:09
(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)
e6f2f1d0-c614-24c1-a80f-dc0665d52607@gmail.com
Hi,

On 29.05.2020 18:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
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> Not long ago, I did this:
>
> commit 40fd909e3ddee2c46a27a4fe92ed49d3e7ffb413
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri Apr 24 16:17:38 2020 +0200
>
> gnu: biber: Downgrade to 2.11.
>
> Biber 2.12 is incompatible with biblatex 3.11, which is what's currently
> packaged. This is a followup to 41a010875ba4108e666f11fc111cf5bb5dcf5464.
>
> * gnu/packages/tex.scm (biber): Downgrade to 2.11.
>
> However, it seems that biblatex has been updated in the meantime.
>
> Could you check whether reverting the commit above fixes the problem for
> you?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Yes, reverting 40fd909e3ddee2c46a27a4fe92ed49d3e7ffb413 seems to fix the
problem.

I have no idea why biber's test suite doesn't check that biblatex
version is compatible.

Can we add guix-specific check, so the package would fail to build if
similar thing happens?
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 31 May 2020 19:02
(name . Mikhail Tsykalov)(address . tsymsh@gmail.com)(address . 41400-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
87a71orqay.fsf@gnu.org
Hi,

Mikhail Tsykalov <tsymsh@gmail.com> skribis:

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> On 29.05.2020 18:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Not long ago, I did this:
>>
>> commit 40fd909e3ddee2c46a27a4fe92ed49d3e7ffb413
>> Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri Apr 24 16:17:38 2020 +0200
>>
>> gnu: biber: Downgrade to 2.11.
>>
>> Biber 2.12 is incompatible with biblatex 3.11, which is what's currently
>> packaged. This is a followup to 41a010875ba4108e666f11fc111cf5bb5dcf5464.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/tex.scm (biber): Downgrade to 2.11.
>>
>> However, it seems that biblatex has been updated in the meantime.
>>
>> Could you check whether reverting the commit above fixes the problem for
>> you?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
> Yes, reverting 40fd909e3ddee2c46a27a4fe92ed49d3e7ffb413 seems to fix
> the problem.

OK, I’ll push the revert shortly.

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> I have no idea why biber's test suite doesn't check that biblatex
> version is compatible.
>
> Can we add guix-specific check, so the package would fail to build if
> similar thing happens?

I don’t know why Biber’s test suite doesn’t do the relevant check, but I
don’t think we can it by ourselves. There’s a biber/biblatex
compatibility matrix in the biblatex documentation:


(Linked from https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex.) I guess we just need to
double-check that when updating. I’ve added a comment in the code.

Thanks!

Ludo’.
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