Bug 2460458

Summary: Please branch and build biber for EPEL9/10
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: biberAssignee: Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: epel10CC: cbm, code, extras-orphan, jnovy, perl-devel, ppisar, than
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Fixed In Version: biber-2.20-1.el10_3 biber-2.14-6.el9 Doc Type: ---
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Last Closed: 2026-09-26 02:34:43 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 2460439, 2460450, 2460451, 2460460, 2460561, 2460562, 2460563, 2460564, 2460565, 2464682, 2517750    
Bug Blocks: 2459059    

Description Orion Poplawski 2026-04-22 01:57:12 UTC
I've requested texlive-biblatex to be build for EPEL9 and am starting to work on requesting the dep chain:

texlive-biblatex -> biber -> many others

It would also be nice to get EPEL10 ready as well.

If you do not wish to maintain biber in epel,
or do not think you will be able to do this in a timely manner,
I would be happy to be a co-maintainer of the package (FAS orion);
please add me through https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/biber/adduser


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Petr Pisar 2026-04-22 10:43:33 UTC
Which biber version? The currently latest one (biber-2.21)? texlive-biblatex and biber need to agree on biblatex control file version.

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2026-04-22 14:52:11 UTC
Good question.  Than - can you address what version of biber we would want in EPEL9 and EPEL10?

Comment 3 Than Ngo 2026-04-22 15:24:55 UTC
EPEL9 includes TexLive-2020, so we need Biber-2.14. For EPEL10, we need Biber-2.20, since it includes TexLive-2024

Comment 4 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 14:35:03 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-08-18 12:02:49 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-1b3cb4039a (biber-2.20-1.el10_3 and perl-Business-ISBN-3.014-2.el10_3) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.3.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-1b3cb4039a

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-08-19 01:23:59 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-1b3cb4039a has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.3 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-1b3cb4039a

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2026-08-19 08:53:34 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-e71e626dec (biber-2.20-1.el10_2 and perl-Business-ISBN-3.014-2.el10_2) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.2.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-e71e626dec

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2026-08-20 15:29:17 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-e71e626dec has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.2 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-e71e626dec

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2026-08-31 16:23:48 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-1b3cb4039a (biber-2.20-1.el10_3 and perl-Business-ISBN-3.014-2.el10_3) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.3 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2026-08-31 16:38:45 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-e71e626dec (biber-2.20-1.el10_2 and perl-Business-ISBN-3.014-2.el10_2) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.2 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Petr Pisar 2026-09-22 11:01:42 UTC
I pushed the package into dist-git and attempted to build it. But the build fails on downloading dependent packages <https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/13572>.

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2026-09-24 11:08:33 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-dd16116e2b (biber-2.14-6.el9 and perl-Encode-EUCJPASCII-0.03-35.el9) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-dd16116e2b

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2026-09-25 00:45:28 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-dd16116e2b has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-dd16116e2b

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2026-09-26 02:34:43 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-dd16116e2b (biber-2.14-6.el9 and perl-Encode-EUCJPASCII-0.03-35.el9) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.