Bug 196976

Summary: Biber (BibTeX replacement) missing from TeXLive (print/texlive-full)
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: 33n5ps+89brie9u1qz9g
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>
Status: Closed Overcome By Events    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: w.schwarzenfeld
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description 33n5ps+89brie9u1qz9g 2015-01-21 19:57:37 UTC 
Biber [1] which is a BiBTeX replacement supporting UTF-8 is missing in the TeXLive installation.

Possible explanation why is it missing, might be in [2].




[1] http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biber
[2] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2012-May/075180.html
Comment 1 John Marino freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-05-17 15:27:30 UTC 
maintainer of print/texlive-full was never informed ...
Comment 2 Walter Schwarzenfeld 2018-01-12 06:19:17 UTC 
Still not solved. No maintainer feedback!
Comment 3 Tobias Kortkamp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-05-14 12:36:35 UTC 
Biber has been available as a standalone port since ports 392544.

https://www.freshports.org/print/latex-biber

I don't think there is much left to do here.