[tex-live] Problem with latex package rev. 47330

[Vladimir Lomov]

Hello,
** Vladimir Lomov [2018-04-08 11:03:36 +0800]:

> Hello,
> ** Norbert Preining [2018-04-08 11:38:25 +0900]:
> 
>> Maybe encoding question? AFAIR did the default change to UTF8.
> 
> All my files uses UTF-8 (by default :).
>  
>> On April 8, 2018 10:45:25 AM GMT+09:00, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> today I updated my TeX Live 2018 installation (it is pretest and will
>>> be
>>> freezed shortly) but my usual document fails to typeset (pdflatex). I
>>> restore the latex package to rev. 43813, rebuild formats and the same
>>> document is typeset fine.
>>>
>>> Sorry, right now I don't have time (before the TeX Live freeze) to make
>>> small example, only my current document.
> 
> Sigh, seems I need how to prepare small example.

Seems that parsing of '\ProvidesPackage' and related commands was
changed. I made small example that shows the problem (I made several
small packages and they have '\ProvidesPackage' similar to one in
example). I attached example file and example style.

P.S. The error from pdflatex was very misleading:

! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
<to be read again> 
		   2
l.4 

? h
I was expecting to see `<', `=', or `>'. Didn't.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{test}

\begin{document}

Hello, World!

\TestMess

\end{document}
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% \ProvidesPackage{test}[%
%   2018/04/08 v0.0 Test Package. ]
\ProvidesPackage{test}%
  [ 2018/04/08 v0.0 Test Package. ]

\newcommand{\TestMess}{%
  Hello, World!
}

\endinput