bug#28758: texlive@2017: Update to at least revision 44704 to address bug in latexdiff

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info> writes:

> Since Perl 5.26.0, braces in RegExps have to be escaped if one wants
> Perl to match these literally.
>
> However, texlive@2017 --- from June 4th, 2017 --- doesn't implement the
> fix made to latexdiff ([1][2]) --- made into TeX Live repository in June
> 26th, 2017.
>
> Without the fix, `latexdiff' command is unable to work (its goal is to
> generate "TeX-command-and-group-aware" differences between LaTeX
> documents).
>
> [1] <https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff/issues/61>.
>
> [2] 
> <https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/latexdiff/latexdiff.pl?view=log>.

I'm closing this >3 years old bug as it was reported against Tex Live
2017, and Guix is now using 2019, which surely includes the above fix.

Closing.

Thanks for the report,

Maxim