Re: version-1.4.0 branch updated

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 07:31:45PM -0500, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> The CI hasn't yet been switched on to build the branch yet; let's give a
>> bit more time for other changes like this to have a chance to be
>> considered/merged and then switch it on!  Perhaps Wednesday.
>
> It seems risky to me to put world-rebuilding changes on the release
> branch, because we won't have time to squash the bugs that inevitably
> appear after deployment before releasing.

In general I agree.

I’d just like to clarify that wip-texlive only contains safe changes.
Font discovery is currently broken in the modular TeX Live and that
branch merely corrects this.  It’s world-rebuilding because almost
everything needs some part of texlive at build time.

-- 
Ricardo