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texlive@2017: Update to at least revision 44704 to address bug in latexdiff

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Message #18 received at 28758-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno <at> hyperbola.info>
Cc: 28758-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28758: texlive <at> 2017: Update to at least revision 44704 to
 address bug in latexdiff
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:34:52 -0500

Hello,

Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno <at> hyperbola.info> writes:

> Since Perl 5.26.0, braces in RegExps have to be escaped if one wants
> Perl to match these literally.
>
> However, texlive <at> 2017 --- from June 4th, 2017 --- doesn't implement the
> fix made to latexdiff ([1][2]) --- made into TeX Live repository in June
> 26th, 2017.
>
> Without the fix, `latexdiff' command is unable to work (its goal is to
> generate "TeX-command-and-group-aware" differences between LaTeX
> documents).
>
> [1] <https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff/issues/61>.
>
> [2] <https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/latexdiff/latexdiff.pl?view=log>.

I'm closing this >3 years old bug as it was reported against Tex Live
2017, and Guix is now using 2019, which surely includes the above fix.

Closing.

Thanks for the report,

Maxim

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