Bug#1004671: incompatible with current biblatex version

[Ryan Kavanagh]

Package: biber
Version: 2.17-1
Severity: grave
Justification: Renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: r...@debian.org

I'm not sure if this should instead be filed against
texlive-bibtex-extra, but the current version of biber is incompatible
with the biblatex package currently in Debian unstable. This effectively
renders biber useless and makes it impossible to compile documents that
use biblatex.

Attempting to compile the following MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\begin{document}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

results in

ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.7, expected version 3.8.
This means that your biber (2.17) and biblatex (3.16) versions are incompatible.

Here is the complete log:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./mwe.tex
LaTeX2e <2021-11-15> patch level 1
L3 programming layer <2021-11-22>
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2021/10/04 v1.4n Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pdftexcmds/pdftexcmds.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/infwarerr/infwarerr.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/iftex/iftex.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ltxcmds/ltxcmds.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/kvoptions/kvoptions.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/kvsetkeys/kvsetkeys.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/logreq/logreq.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/logreq/logreq.def))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/blx-dm.def)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/blx-compat.def)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.def)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx/numeric.bbx
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx/standard.bbx))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/cbx/numeric.cbx)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.cfg))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdftex.def)
(./mwe.aux) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/english.lbx)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/blx-case-expl3.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.sty))
(./mwe.bbl)

LaTeX Warning: Empty bibliography on input line 5.

(./mwe.aux) )
No pages of output.
Transcript written on mwe.log.
Use of uninitialized value in quotemeta at /usr/share/perl5/Biber/Config.pm line 228.
Use of uninitialized value $tool in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Biber/Config.pm line 307.
INFO - This is Biber 2.17
INFO - Logfile is 'mwe.blg'
INFO - Reading 'mwe.bcf'
ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.7, expected version 3.8.
This means that your biber (2.17) and biblatex (3.16) versions are incompatible.
See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.
INFO - ERRORS: 1

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages biber depends on:
ii libautovivification-perl 0.18-1+b3
ii libbusiness-isbn-perl 3.006-1
ii libbusiness-ismn-perl 1.202-1
ii libbusiness-issn-perl 1.004-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libdata-compare-perl 1.27-1
ii libdata-dump-perl 1.25-1
ii libdata-uniqid-perl 0.12-1.1
ii libdate-simple-perl 3.0300-3+b1
ii libdatetime-calendar-julian-perl 0.106-1
ii libdatetime-format-builder-perl 0.8300-1
ii libdatetime-perl 2:1.55-1
ii libencode-eucjpms-perl 0.07-3+b9
ii libencode-hanextra-perl 0.23-5+b3
ii libencode-jis2k-perl 0.03-1+b7
ii libfile-slurper-perl 0.013-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii liblingua-translit-perl 0.28-1
ii liblist-allutils-perl 0.19-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.430-2
ii liblog-log4perl-perl 1.54-1
ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.10-1
ii libparse-recdescent-perl 1.967015+dfsg-2
ii libreadonly-perl 2.050-3
ii libregexp-common-perl 2017060201-1
ii libsort-key-perl 1.33-2+b3
ii libtext-bibtex-perl 0.88-3+b2
ii libtext-csv-perl 2.01-1
ii libtext-csv-xs-perl 1.47-1
ii libtext-roman-perl 3.5-2.1
ii libunicode-linebreak-perl 0.0.20190101-1+b3
ii liburi-perl 5.10-1
ii libwww-perl 6.61-1
ii libxml-libxml-simple-perl 1.01-1
ii libxml-libxslt-perl 1.99-1+b1
ii libxml-writer-perl 0.900-1
ii perl [libunicode-collate-perl] 5.32.1-6
ii tex-common 6.17

Versions of packages biber recommends:
ii texlive-bibtex-extra 2021.20211217-1

biber suggests no packages.

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[Hilmar Preuße]

Control: reassign -1 texlive-bibtex-extra
Control: found -1 2021.20211217-1
Control: tags -1 + pending

Am 31.01.2022 um 15:53 teilte Ryan Kavanagh mit:

Hi,

> I'm not sure if this should instead be filed against
> texlive-bibtex-extra, but the current version of biber is incompatible
> with the biblatex package currently in Debian unstable. This effectively
> renders biber useless and makes it impossible to compile documents that
> use biblatex.
>

The new biblatex has been uploaded to CTAN and has been integrated into
the TL packages. I'm currently building new source packages.

Hilmar
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