[tex-live] apparently the update to the LaTeX kernel didn't trigger format recreation for XeTeX

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Maïeul,

> cf http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/277337/7712

This is strange and I cannot reproduce it - or better - I can reproduce
it for xelatex (bug already analyzed, missing dependency), but not
for pdflatex or latex itself.

I just tried (everyone can do this - easy to check):

- do a full update:
	tlmgr update --all
- edit the TLROOT/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, search for
	name latex
	...
  and then in the following
	revision NNNNN
  line reduce the number (remove last digit, or reduce by 1)
- call tlmgr update --all, which should update only the latex package.

I did this, and the following formats were rebuilt (removing 
some long options from the output):

running fmtutil-sys --byengine ptex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byengine aleph ...
running fmtutil-sys --byengine eptex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byengine ptex-ng ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt mllatex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt xmltex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt cslatex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt lualatex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt dvilualatex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdflatex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt jadetex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt latex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdfjadetex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdfxmltex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt mltex ...
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdfcslatex ...

One sees that both latex and pdflatex was rebuilt, correctly,
but xelatex is missing.

If those who see the problem could do the above operation and check
whether they get the same output, I would be happy to see it!

So *I* don't see the bug that is mentioned on SX, only for xelatex,
which we will fix soon.

All the best

Norbert

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