Hi paka, Thanks for the reply. I know that it's available in OSS. My suggestion was that it should be a package dependency of texlive-biber - that way it gets pulled in automatically when installing texlive-biber. I'm not sure who to contact to get that done. Chris On Jul-15-18, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Chris Coutinho [07-15-18 07:37]:

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Hello,

I recently installed a fresh copy of Tumbleweed and tried to compile a TeX document that contains a bibliography, for which I need to use the `texlive-biber` package. Apparently, after some investigation I found out that the new version of this package now requires the `perl-File-Slurper` package to function properly - even trying to determine the package version from the command line fails because the package can't be found.

How can I inform the package maintainer that the new dependency needs to be added?

perl-File-Slurper is available in OSS

Information for package perl-File-Slurper: ------------------------------------------ Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS Name : perl-File-Slurper Version : 0.012-1.2 Arch : noarch Vendor : openSUSE Installed Size : 28.6 KiB Installed : No Status : not installed Source package : perl-File-Slurper-0.012-1.2.src Summary : Simple, Sane and Efficient Module to Slurp a File Description : This module provides functions for fast and correct slurping and spewing. All functions are optionally exported. All functions throw exceptions on errors, write functions don't return any meaningful value.

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On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 07:44:47AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Chris Coutinho [07-15-18 07:37]:

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Hello,

I recently installed a fresh copy of Tumbleweed and tried to compile a TeX document that contains a bibliography, for which I need to use the `texlive-biber` package. Apparently, after some investigation I found out that the new version of this package now requires the `perl-File-Slurper` package to function properly - even trying to determine the package version from the command line fails because the package can't be found.

How can I inform the package maintainer that the new dependency needs to be added?

perl-File-Slurper is available in OSS

Information for package perl-File-Slurper: ------------------------------------------ Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed OSS Name : perl-File-Slurper Version : 0.012-1.2 Arch : noarch Vendor : openSUSE Installed Size : 28.6 KiB Installed : No Status : not installed Source package : perl-File-Slurper-0.012-1.2.src Summary : Simple, Sane and Efficient Module to Slurp a File Description : This module provides functions for fast and correct slurping and spewing. All functions are optionally exported. All functions throw exceptions on errors, write functions don't return any meaningful value.

Hmmm ... AFAICR the package texlive-biber requires texlive-biber-bin and the last one requires perl(Biber) which is package perl-biber with the following dependencies: perl(Sort::Key) perl(Text::Roman) perl(Unicode::Collate) perl(Data::Uniqid) perl(DateTime) perl(DateTime::Calendar::Julian) perl(Text::BibTeX) perl(LWP::Protocol::https) perl(LWP::Simple) perl(Log::Log4perl) perl(Unicode::GCString) perl(Business::ISMN) perl(Business::ISSN) perl(Class::Accessor) perl(Data::Compare) perl(Data::Dump) perl(Date::Simple) perl(DateTime::Format::Builder) perl(Encode::EUCJPASCII) perl(Encode::HanExtra) perl(Encode::JIS2K) perl(IPC::Cmd) perl(IPC::Run3) perl(List::AllUtils) perl(List::MoreUtils) perl(Regexp::Common) perl(Text::CSV) perl(XML::LibXML::Simple) perl(XML::LibXSLT) perl(autovivification) perl(Business::ISBN) perl(DateTime::TimeZone) perl(File::Slurp) perl(URI) perl(XML::Writer) I'll add perl(File::Slurp::Unicode) perl(File::Slurper) -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr