bug#28758: closed (texlive@2017: Update to at least revision 44704 to address bug in latexdiff)

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to address bug in latexdiff
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #28758,
regarding texlive@2017: Update to at least revision 44704 to address bug in 
latexdiff
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> texlive@2017: Update to at least revision 44704 to address bug in latexdiff
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> Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:14:53 -0300
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> Since Perl 5.26.0, braces in RegExps have to be escaped if one wants
> Perl to match these literally.
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> However, texlive@2017 --- from June 4th, 2017 --- doesn't implement the
> fix made to latexdiff ([1][2]) --- made into TeX Live repository in June
> 26th, 2017.
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> Without the fix, `latexdiff' command is unable to work (its goal is to
> generate "TeX-command-and-group-aware" differences between LaTeX
> documents).
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> [1] <https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff/issues/61>.
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> [2] 
> <https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/latexdiff/latexdiff.pl?view=log>.
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> Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:34:52 -0500
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> Hello,
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> Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info> writes:
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> > Since Perl 5.26.0, braces in RegExps have to be escaped if one wants
> > Perl to match these literally.
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> > However, texlive@2017 --- from June 4th, 2017 --- doesn't implement the
> > fix made to latexdiff ([1][2]) --- made into TeX Live repository in June
> > 26th, 2017.
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> > Without the fix, `latexdiff' command is unable to work (its goal is to
> > generate "TeX-command-and-group-aware" differences between LaTeX
> > documents).
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> > [1] <https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff/issues/61>.
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> > [2] 
> > <https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/latexdiff/latexdiff.pl?view=log>.
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> 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.
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> Closing.
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> Thanks for the report,
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> Maxim
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