tectonic: redefine to wrap it with `biber-for-tectonic`

The `tectonic` attribute is redefined to be a wrapper with a compatible
version of biber, provided by `biber-for-tectonic`.

The wrapper is partially recovered from a previous nixpkgs commit:

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5aa8e9f0f90b0c9bbdf7b18ead18704d1622c509

Also:

- Remove unneeded makeBinaryWrapper input in `tectonic-unwrapped`.
- Add @bryango as a maintainer of both `tectonic-unwrapped` and
  `tectonic`.

Co-authored-by: Doron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com>

3 files changed, 69 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tectonic/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tectonic/default.nix
index 21391ac72917d..6b98a5db63438 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tectonic/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tectonic/default.nix
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+/*
+  This file provides the `tectonic-unwrapped` package. On the other hand,
+  the `tectonic` package is defined in `./wrapper.nix`, by wrapping
+  - [`tectonic-unwrapped`](./default.nix) i.e. this package, and
+  - [`biber-for-tectonic`](./biber.nix),
+    which provides a compatible version of `biber`.
+*/
+
 { lib
 , stdenv
 , fetchFromGitHub
@@ -25,7 +33,7 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
 
   cargoHash = "sha256-1WjZbmZFPB1+QYpjqq5Y+fDkMZNmWJYIxmMFWg7Tiac=";
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config makeBinaryWrapper ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
 
   buildInputs = [ icu fontconfig harfbuzz openssl ]
     ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin (with darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks; [ ApplicationServices Cocoa Foundation ]);
@@ -51,6 +59,6 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
     changelog = "https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/blob/tectonic@${version}/CHANGELOG.md";
     license = with licenses; [ mit ];
     mainProgram = "tectonic";
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ lluchs doronbehar ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ lluchs doronbehar bryango ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tectonic/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tectonic/wrapper.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5a4dc47e37a29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tectonic/wrapper.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+{ lib
+, symlinkJoin
+, tectonic-unwrapped
+, biber-for-tectonic
+, makeWrapper
+}:
+
+symlinkJoin {
+  name = "${tectonic-unwrapped.pname}-wrapped-${tectonic-unwrapped.version}";
+  paths = [ tectonic-unwrapped ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+
+  passthru = {
+    unwrapped = tectonic-unwrapped;
+    biber = biber-for-tectonic;
+  };
+
+  # Replace the unwrapped tectonic with the one wrapping it with biber
+  postBuild = ''
+    rm $out/bin/{tectonic,nextonic}
+  ''
+    # Ideally, we would have liked to also pin the version of the online TeX
+    # bundle that Tectonic's developer distribute, so that the `biber` version
+    # and the `biblatex` version distributed from there are compatible.
+    # However, that is not currently possible, due to lack of upstream support
+    # for specifying this in runtime, there were 2 suggestions sent upstream
+    # that suggested a way of improving the situation:
+    #
+    # - https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/pull/1132
+    # - https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/pull/1131
+    #
+    # The 1st suggestion seems more promising as it'd allow us to simply use
+    # makeWrapper's --add-flags option. However, the PR linked above is not
+    # complete, and as of currently, upstream hasn't even reviewed it, or
+    # commented on the idea.
+    #
+    # Note also that upstream has announced that they will put less time and
+    # energy for the project:
+    #
+    # https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/discussions/1122
+    #
+    # Hence, we can be rather confident that for the near future, the online
+    # TeX bundle won't be updated and hence the biblatex distributed there
+    # won't require a higher version of biber.
+  + ''
+    makeWrapper ${lib.getBin tectonic-unwrapped}/bin/tectonic $out/bin/tectonic \
+      --prefix PATH : "${lib.getBin biber-for-tectonic}/bin"
+    ln -s $out/bin/tectonic $out/bin/nextonic
+  '';
+
+  meta = tectonic-unwrapped.meta // {
+    description = "Tectonic TeX/LaTeX engine, wrapped with a compatible biber";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ doronbehar bryango ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8a0c052fda09b..861d41181f1d1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -25317,7 +25317,9 @@ with pkgs;
 
   tecla = callPackage ../development/libraries/tecla { };
 
-  tectonic = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/tectonic {
+  tectonic = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/tectonic/wrapper.nix { };
+
+  tectonic-unwrapped = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/tectonic {
     harfbuzz = harfbuzzFull;
   };