Hi Julien, you are a bit late, I have requested an unblock of the packages under discussion in #853974 which was granted and the packages under discussion have migrated to testing. The packages (-2) that fix all these problems are in unstable, and after the 10 days period I will ask for another unblock via reportbug.
Thanks Norbert On Mon, 06 Feb 2017, Julien Cristau wrote: > 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 Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
