[gnuastro-devel] [bug #49925] boostrap depends on biblatex, but biblatex is no longer in debian

[Boud Roukema]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49925>

                 Summary: boostrap depends on biblatex, but biblatex is no
longer in debian
                 Project: GNU Astronomy Utilities
            Submitted by: boud
            Submitted on: Sat 24 Dec 2016 10:57:07 PM GMT
                Category: Installation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Configuration file
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

On commit 21362958eaaded332  (i.e. the savannah master branch right now),
on a debian/jessie installation, I tried:


./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=/usr/share/gnulib


and the bootstrap procedure crashed with:


! LaTeX Error: File `biblatex.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:


It looks like biblatex is no longer maintained in Debian GNU/Linux:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=biblatex&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

I don't know why this is the case.

Forced dependence on a program that is not in debian/stable (or even
available in any other more up-to-date debian version) does not seem
to be a wise interpackage strategy to me. There should at least be a
fallback for non-availability of biblatex - I haven't used biblatex,
but some fallback to bibtex and latex should presumably work.

[I put this in the "configuration file" group because that's 
the closest to "bootstrap". Obviously this doesn't really
concern the configure file for a non-git user.]




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