TL2015: LaTeX compatibility with TL2014 and earlier

[Hiroki Sato]

Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at janh.de> wrote
  in <55B0D1B5.60505 at janh.de>:

me> I upgraded to TL2015 (on FreeBSD 10.1/amd64) and compiled a few old
me> documents for testing. They all look fine.
me>
me> For one larger project, spacing changed slightly causing page break
me> changes. Assuming it might be because of the fixltx2e->latexrelease
me> change, I tried to add \RequirePackage[2014/05/01]{latexrelease} in the
me> beginning as documented. Now it does not compile anymore at all. This
me> can easily be reproduced, these three lines already fail:
me>
me> \RequirePackage[2014/05/01]{latexrelease}
me> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
me> \begin{document}$\mathtt{i}$\end{document}
me>
me> This is probably not a problem with the FreeBSD port, but rather a
me> problem with TL2015 in general -- or my lack of understanding of
me> latexrelease. Unfortunately, I do not have TL2015 on a different OS to test.
me>
me> Any idea?
me>
me> Should I go straight to the tex-live mailing list or LaTeX Community forum?

 I tried it on Win32 but it worked with no error.  I will investigate
 whether it is FreeBSD-specific or not more closely.

-- Hiroki
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