On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 01:26:30PM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > There have been some changes in the luatex engine that will be shipped
> > with TeX Live 2016 that cause many of our tests to fail (500 something
> > instead of 100 something on TL 2015). The root issue is discussed on the
> > LuaTeX mailing list at [1].
> > 
> > There is a transitional package available, luatex85, that should make
> > our current LuaTeX code work. A reasonable approach for now would be to
> > use the package if it is available and to not use it if not, keeping the
> > rest of our LuaTeX export code the same. This would make sense if we
> > think that most users who use the newer LuaTeX also have the package
> > installed.
> 
> > 
> > A more robust solution would be to make the behavior dependent on the
> > version of LuaTeX that the user has.
> > 
> > I'm not worried about this for 2.2.0 for the following reasons:
> 
> Agreed. We should note whatever we know about the problem into RELEASE-NOTES,
> known issues section; it might help packagers to setup proper dependencies
> against 2016 luatex.

Done at e16018af.

Scott

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