http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040434
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040434#c19
--- Comment #19 from Dr. Werner Fink
Well, there is apparently an interconnection between fontspec and other components of texlive which I was not aware of when filing that bug. It seems to me that the update of fontspec was a necessary step but not a sufficient one. After all, Debian with TL 2016 seems to have done its packaging job properly such that the bug does not occur there. There are dozens of differences between their packaging and OpenSuse packaging, and the most striking one is their newer version of fontspec.
Debian does use follow upstream at each update as the Norbert has the time to do this. I've not. And yes the original fontspec of the original TeXLive 2016 is not perfect but fits the definition found in the LaTeX kernel engine. Even packaging is open source and you might help here to get more perfect -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.