[tex-live] Biber issue after update

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2018-03-20 at 16:51:14 -0600, Karl Berry wrote:

 > I was under the impression it has always been required. But maybe
 > it was a variant of PAR (PAR::Packer?); I'm not sure.

Hi Karl,
I get the same error message (TL-2018 on CentOS-7) but everything
works as expected when I switch back to TeX Live 2017.  I don't have
perl-PAR-Packer installed.

 > Best to check with the biber author.

Yes.  I'm convinced that the current behavior is not desired. 

Regards,
  Reinhard

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