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
