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.
* 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)
* upload a new package fixing the above two bugs now, and ask
straight ahead for a transition?
What would you suggested to do?
Thanks a lot and all the best
Norbert
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