feat: add perl-BibTeX-Parser and perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode components

[Autumn Nash (WithEnoughCoffee)]

Summary

repoclosure on the 2026-04-16 x86_64 snapshot reports missing perl(BibTeX::Parser)/perl(BibTeX::Parser::Author), required by texlive-bibtexperllibs and texlive-crossrefware. One of 19 items in Bucket 1 of the repoclosure analysis (parent bug #18865).

Root cause

• texlive-bibtexperllibs explicitly requires perl(BibTeX::Parser). This is a files-less metapackage (# Intentionally no files here. Metapackage to pull in perl(LaTeX::ToUnicode) and perl(BibTeX::Parser)).
• The real consumer is texlive-crossrefware, which pulls the dependency in transitively: RPM's perl dependency auto-scanner picks it up from the bundled .pl scripts (bibdoiadd.pl, bibzbladd.pl, ltx2crossrefxml.pl) that use BibTeX::Parser.
• No component in the distro provided it.

Fix

Import perl-BibTeX-Parser from Fedora (provides both symbols). It requires perl(LaTeX::ToUnicode), also missing, so that's imported too. Both are plain upstream imports (no overlays/forking), pinned to the same Fedora 43 snapshot the rest of the distro uses.

Validation

• Both components built successfully, %check passing (BibTeX-Parser: 478 tests; LaTeX-ToUnicode: 103 tests).
• Mock-chroot smoke test: both modules load correctly (perl -MBibTeX::Parser, perl -MBibTeX::Parser::Author).
• azldev comp update/render --check-only show no drift.

Proof of fix — rpm -qp on the built RPMs:

$ rpm -qp --provides perl-BibTeX-Parser-1.93-1.azl4.noarch.rpm
perl(BibTeX::Parser) = 1.93
perl(BibTeX::Parser::Author) = 1.93
perl(BibTeX::Parser::Entry) = 1.93
perl-BibTeX-Parser = 1.93-1.azl4

$ rpm -qp --requires perl-BibTeX-Parser-1.93-1.azl4.noarch.rpm | grep LaTeX
perl(LaTeX::ToUnicode) >= 0.11

$ rpm -qp --provides perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode-1.93-1.azl4.noarch.rpm
perl(LaTeX::ToUnicode) = 1.93
perl(LaTeX::ToUnicode::Tables) = 1.93
perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode = 1.93-1.azl4

Confirms the exact symbols repoclosure flagged (perl(BibTeX::Parser), perl(BibTeX::Parser::Author)) are now provided, and perl-BibTeX-Parser's own >= 0.11 floor on perl(LaTeX::ToUnicode) is satisfied by the newly-added perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode (= 1.93).

Notes

• perl-BibTeX-Parser and perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode are released in lockstep upstream (same author, synced version bumps: 1.05/0.55 → 1.92 → 1.93). The RPM floor is relaxed to >= 0.11 per Fedora's own spec comment, so automated version bumps of one without the other won't be caught by dependency resolution — worth bumping them together.
• Fedora's perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode gained a guard in 1.94 (install_ltx2unitxt_manual) to avoid a man1/ltx2unitxt.1 conflict with texlive-bibtexperllibs. At the pinned 1.93 the script ships no POD, so no man page is generated and there's no conflict today; confirmed via rpm -qp --list that only /usr/bin/ltx2unitxt and man3/* are packaged. This resolves itself for free when the distro snapshot advances to 1.94+.

This is still a working draft.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds two Fedora Perl components to satisfy missing TeX Live runtime dependencies.

Changes:

• Imports perl-BibTeX-Parser and perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode.
• Adds generated specs, patches, sources, and component locks.
• Preserves %check and test subpackages.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
base/comps/components.toml	Registers both components alphabetically.
locks/perl-BibTeX-Parser.lock	Pins the BibTeX parser import.
locks/perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode.lock	Pins the LaTeX converter import.
specs/p/perl-BibTeX-Parser/sources	Records the source checksum.
specs/p/perl-BibTeX-Parser/perl-BibTeX-Parser.spec	Packages the parser and its tests.
specs/p/perl-BibTeX-Parser/BibTeX-Parser-1.03-Remove-a-debugging-output-from-BibTeX-Parser-Entry-t.patch	Removes stray debugging output.
specs/p/perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode/sources	Records the source checksum.
specs/p/perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode/perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode.spec	Packages the converter and its tests.
specs/p/perl-LaTeX-ToUnicode/LaTeX-ToUnicode-0.53-Do-not-add-bogus-paths-to-INC.patch	Removes unsuitable module search paths.

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Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 9 changed files in this pull request and generated no new comments.

[Autumn Nash (WithEnoughCoffee)]

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