[tex-live] BibLatex issues after last upgrade

[Kime Philip]

Yes, biblatex-philosophy is a style for biblatex written by Ivan Balbusa according to the doc so best contact him.

I generally don’t make compat aliases for internals as people shouldn’t be using them anyway and it makes for messy internals.

PK

> On 9 Mar 2016, at 1:09 am, Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi at alice.it> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Il 09/03/2016 00:44, Ken Brown ha scritto:
>> On 3/8/2016 5:13 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>>> This morning I did a TL-2015 upgrade but some documents do not build any
>>> more. For example:
>>> 
>>> $ latexmk -pdf solutio_majorana
>>> [...]
>>> (/opt/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx/authoryear.bbx
>>> (/opt/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx/standard.bbx))
>>> (/opt/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-philosophy/philosophy-standard.bbx
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>> l.1597 \ifblx at load@version at one
>> 
>> Hi Angelo,
>> 
>> The problem seems to be that \ifblx at load@version at one was renamed to
>> \ifblx at load@version at legacy in biblatex-3.3.  This happened in commit
> 
> Yes, I understood this after Karl forwarded Phil's message..
> 
> But, Phil, you wrote:
> 
>> I’m not surprised - this style is using internals which are not supposed
>> to be exposed to anyone - there a *lot* of internal changes in version
>> 3.3 to allow future expansion and features. That particular macro has
>> been renamed to
>> 
>> \ifblx at load@version at legacy
>> 
>> The style author should be contacted.
> 
> This is obscure.. should we contact someone else?
> 
> 
>> 09f8438 in the biblatex git repo, which did a lot of renaming.  Phil,
>> did you intend to keep the old names as legacy aliases?
>> 
> 
>> Ken
> 
> Thanks, Angelo.

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Dr Philip Kime