maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 288506] print/tex-luatex: installs a pre-release version of TeXLive

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Bug 288506: print/tex-luatex: installs a pre-release version of TeXLive
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288506



--- Description ---
Installing package tex-luatex (incorrectly) installs a pre-release version of
TeXLive:

This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.21.0 (Web2C 2025) 
 restricted system commands enabled.
(./minimal.tex
LaTeX2e <2025-06-01> pre-release-2 (develop 2025-7-5 branch)
L3 programming layer <2025-01-18>
 (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex-dev/base/minimal.cls
Document Class: minimal 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
)

In the current (mid-2025) version of TeXLive, this should be

LaTeX2e <2025-06-01> patch level 1

or something similar.  That is, it appears that the wrong upstream version has
been packaged.

The above illustrates the behaviour with lualatex, the same appears to be true
of the other related packages.

There was some discussion of this on the freebsd-tex@lists.freebsd.org list. 
See https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-tex/2025-July/000591.html and
the following thread; see there for further details.

The issue was also discussed on the TeXLive list starting
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2025-July/051615.html which illustrated some
breakage in practice, attributed to the pre-release version, and which includes
a statement from members of the TeXLive team that the pre-release should not be
installed in this way.