Re: [PATCH 00/29] Add Biber

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:34:53PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Guix,
> 
> this patch set adds Biber, the bibliography backend for biblatex.  It's
> actually supposed to be part of the Texlive distribution, but our Texlive
> package only comes with a source tarball of Biber.

Overall LGTM.

> (I use Biber for Unicode references in APA style.)
> 
> All packages were linted.  The only unusual thing here is that the latest
> Biber doesn't work with the 2016 Texlive distribution, so I named the latest
> Biber "biber-next" and added "biber-2.5" with package name "biber", so that
> users installing "biber" with "texlive" get the right thing.

I'm curious, what happens if one tries biber-next? Does it build?