Re: new RC bug in texlive-base and transition to testing
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 19:19:18 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Dear Release Team,
>
> recently (within the 10 day transition period) a RC bug (853119) has
> surfaced for texlive-base, which causes FTBFS of other packages.
> The reason is that the update requires adjusted dependencies as
> we need to pull in now fonts-lmodern.
>
> (Technical detail: The change was to switch to a dedicate Unicode
> font encoding by default on lualatex and xelatex to better support
> non-ascii writing. Thus, the default font is not anymore the
> CMR fonts shipped in texlive-base, but the lmodern fonts, whose
> otf variants are shipped in fonts-lmodern and which are thus necessary
> for processing some documents when using xelatex or lulalatex).
>
> I am a bit in doubt how to proceed here, as there are a few options:
> * forget about getting the current packages into testing
> This is of course an option, and would not hurt too much
> but at least a bit.
Yes.
> * downgrade the RC bug to allow for transition in three days, then
> upload fixed packages (also fixing a in-fact-RC bug
> that was filed as important by Andreas Beckmann concerning
> messed up replaces/breaks, bug 852599)
No.
> * upload a new package fixing the above two bugs now, and ask
> straight ahead for a transition?
>
Yes. (Possibly by undoing the change causing 853119 rather than making
yet more changes.)
Cheers,
Julien
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