Hi Hans,
On Wed, 2026-03-25 at 13:52 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/25/2026 1:17 PM, Max Chernoff wrote:
>
> > so I'll go ahead and revert the change in TL directly.
>
> As there is 'pretest' for the anual texlive, why isn't there something
> liek that for an update ... and then only update once per month or so:
> pretest 15th, update 1th so a 14 day test period.
Well, there are about 10 package updates every day, and this is the only
time in the past 5 years where I can remember an update to one package
("lxgw-fonts") breaking completely unrelated packages ("luaotfload" and
"context"), even when the broken package is never loaded.
And even then, the breakage was relatively minimal: it only affected
users who use LuaLaTeX or ConTeXt (both of which are much less popular
than pdfLaTeX), only if they tried to reload the font name database
(which can happen automatically after installation or if you try to load
a font that doesn't exist, otherwise it only runs manually), and only if
they updated their TL installation in the ~3 day window where the broken
package was present.
The other problem is that hardly anyone uses the pretests, so unless
something popular is completely broken, it'll probably be missed (look
at the math italics stuff from last year for an example).
Thanks,
-- Max
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