Compilation problem with TeX Live 2019 about svg

[mrpiggi]

Well, the latest release 2019/10/01 of the LaTeXe kernel raised some issue regarding file name parsing, so this problem is probably related to ho-tex/oberdiek#73 but I'll have a look into svg.sty

As an urgent fix, you can use

\RequirePackage[2018/12/01]{latexrelease}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{svg}
\begin{document}
\includesvg{MWE}
\end{document}

but I will try to fix this within the svg package, if possible...

FYI: When using \IfFileExists, the found file is stored to the internal macro \@filef@und and the latest LaTeX kernel encloses the file path in quotes. The package svg relies on this internal command but did not expect quotes. I should be able to fix that...

[alessanderbotti]

Thank you very much for the quick response, I really needed this urgent fix! The following date worked for me:

\RequirePackage[2019/09/30]{latexrelease}

[mrpiggi]

The proposed solution is not a fix but just a workaround... fix pending

[mrpiggi]

The initial MWE should work with v2.02c without the need for package latexrelease. The update was send to CTAN and should be available soon.

[alessanderbotti]

I removed the line \RequirePackage[2019/09/30]{latexrelease} from my document, copied svg.sty version 2.02c (2019-10-10) and confirmed that it solves the problem. Thanks again.

[mrpiggi]

Version v2.02c is now provided to common distributions via CTAN so you should probably delete your local version of package svg in order to use future updates.