Bug 2460458

Summary:	Please branch and build biber for EPEL9/10
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component:	biber	Assignee:	Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	cbm, code, jnovy, perl-devel, ppisar, than
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Bug Depends On:	2460451, 2460562, 2460439, 2460450, 2460460, 2460561, 2460563, 2460564, 2460565, 2464682
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