Bug 1639640

Summary:	Biber and texlive-biblatex versions are incompatible
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	flohri <floh.strobel>
Component:	biber	Assignee:	Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	29	CC:	cbm, fedora, jnovy, mefoster, perl-devel, sanjay.ankur, thomas
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Last Closed:	2018-10-30 17:29:54 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description flohri 2018-10-16 09:29:42 UTC

Description of problem:
The official biber package is of version 2.7 while texlive-biblatex is of version 3.11. They are closely coupled to each other, so biber needs an update to current version 2.11 to work with current texlive-biblatex package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.7

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install biber (2.7)
2. Install texlive-biblatex (3.11)
3. Try to create a bibliography of a document with biber

Actual results:
...
Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.4, expected version 3.3.
This means that your biber (2.7) and biblatex (3.11) versions are incompatible.
...

Expected results:
a clean run of biber

This is my first filed bug. Please excuse my bad term

Comment 1 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-10-16 10:28:27 UTC

Seeing this too. I reckon biber needs an update, and that should hopefully fix it. Increasing severity, since currently, biber will not work with biblatex.

$ rpm -q biber
biber-2.7-3.fc29.noarch
$ rpm -qa \*biblatex\*
texlive-biblatex-nature-svn43382-20.fc29.noarch
texlive-biblatex-svn46851-20.fc29.noarch

Comment 2 Thomas 2018-10-17 06:31:33 UTC

I received the same error on F29.

I use as workaround this package:
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/texlive/2017/9.fc29/noarch/texlive-biblatex-svn42680-9.fc29.noarch.rpm

Source: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1081986

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-10-18 20:09:55 UTC

biber-2.11-1.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-129b020cb7

Comment 4 Colin Macdonald 2018-10-18 20:11:55 UTC

Please test and send karma for F29

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-10-20 19:23:29 UTC

biber-2.11-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-129b020cb7

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-10-30 17:29:54 UTC

biber-2.11-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.