Re: serious dblatex problem

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> dblatex version 0.3.5 (as used in openSuSE 42.1, for example) is
>> incompatible with recent TeXLive versions (in particular, the
>> recent version of `multirow.sty'), cf.
>>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840189
>> This is a very serious bug.  Unfortunately, you have to use the hg
>> version of dblatex (or using the latest tagged release, 0.3.9,
>> together with some debian patches), since no new release has been
>> published yet with the proper fix.
>
> FWIW, 'make doc' works fine on Fedora 25:
>
> $ dnf info dblatex | grep Version
> Version     : 0.3.8
>
> $ dnf info texlive | grep -A 1 Version
> Version     : 2016
> Release     : 30.20160520.fc25

Thanks for testing TeXLive 2016.  However, my heads-up is for TeXLive
2017, to be released in two months, IIRC – some people might use tlmgr
to update TeXLive, and those people might already have received the
new `multirow.sty' version that exhibits the dblatex bug.


    Werner