bug#41400: Current biber version is incompatible with biblatex

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 29 mai 2020 11:38:31 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>Mikhail Tsykalov <tsymsh@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> When running biber the following error appears:
>>
>> ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.5, expected
>> version 3.4.
>> This means that your biber (2.11) and biblatex (3.12) versions are
>> incompatible.
>> See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation.
>
>Not long ago, I did this:
>
>  commit 40fd909e3ddee2c46a27a4fe92ed49d3e7ffb413
>  Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
>  Date:   Fri Apr 24 16:17:38 2020 +0200
>
>      gnu: biber: Downgrade to 2.11.
>
>Biber 2.12 is incompatible with biblatex 3.11, which is what's
>currently
>packaged.  This is a followup to
>41a010875ba4108e666f11fc111cf5bb5dcf5464.
>
>      * gnu/packages/tex.scm (biber): Downgrade to 2.11.
>
>However, it seems that biblatex has been updated in the meantime.
>
>Could you check whether reverting the commit above fixes the problem
>for
>you?
>
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.

We should add a comment to the biber package toqwarn about this. Wdyt?