Re: LuaTeX 1.0.0?

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 08:38:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > I don't know what we should do for stretch - I guess ask for an
> > exemption?  Excluding XeTeX after all this time seems wrong,
> 
> Guess so, unless there is a simpler solution. I have checked a bit
> for an alternative converter code, without success.
> 
> > Just a thought - I wonder whether anyone has considered contacting the
> > teckit developers?  It is only this one pair of files
> 
> FOr now I have contacted Karl already, we will see what he answers,
> since this is also a problem of TeX Live itself.

Hi Norbert,

Thanks for all of this!

I'll also drop a note to the teckit Debian and upstream maintainers -
there's a teckit in experimental, and if it makes it to unstable, then
the texlive binaries could be built instead using the system teckit.

Best wishes,

   Julian