[Bug 1165620] Review Request: biber - Command-line bibliographic manager, BibTeX replacement

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165620



--- Comment #5 from Petr Šabata <psabata at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Colin Macdonald from comment #3)
> 1.  @psabata: What should I do about this?
> 
> > + perl Build.PL
> > Checking prerequisites...
> >   requires:
> >    !  Unicode::Collate (0.97) is installed, but we need version >= 0.98
> 
> It seems to work without.  And AFAICT, Unicode::Collate is baked-in to our
> perl (?)  The META.json file also says this.

Unicode::Collate is indeed bundled with perl but also lives on on CPAN as a
separate distribution ("dual-lives").  What we can do is to subpackage the
module from the perl package and then package the standalone Unicode::Collate
module which will update and replace the perl subpackage.

We do this for many modules already and plan to subpackage most or all of them
at some point.  It's an ongoing work.  If you really need the new
Unicode::Collate, I can do that for you.

> 2.  I may need to fix-up Source0.  IIRC (months ago) I followed some guide
> on packaging from git and re-zipped it as "plk-biber-v1.8-0-g848ca84.zip". 
> But surely I can just use
> "biber-848ca84face08bdba8a6e8d95447b0ec71e56804.zip", as served by
> "https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/
> 848ca84face08bdba8a6e8d95447b0ec71e56804.zip"?

Github generates tarballs from tags, you can use these:
https://github.com/plk/biber/releases

Also, v1.9 has been available for a while.  Any reason to stick with 1.8?

> 3.  Actually, on re-reading that, I should probably just take
> "http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/1.8/
> biblatex-biber.tar.gz" instead.  Although this filename is not versioned...

I would use the abovementioned tarballs.

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