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

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info>]

I have downloaded TeX Live repository but unfortunatelly I found out
that the directory structure of the repository is different than the
release's.

An option would be to make latexdiff into a separate package, with
a name such as "texlive-texmf-scripts-latexdiff", and take the source
from either latexdiff CTAN page ([1]) or their development repository
([2]) and in either case remove the latexdiff from the "texlive-texmf"
package. But in this option, I don't know if latexdiff would need other
parts of TeX Live to be updated in order to work correctly.

[1] <https://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff>.
[2] <https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff/>.

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> There hasn’t been a new release tag that includes this change, and I’m
> not comfortable with just increasing the revision to an arbitrary
> development revision.
>
> Is this something we can apply as a patch to a single package?  If so,
> which package requires this fix?