Package: doxygen Version: 1.8.1.2-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
in wheezy and jessie doxygen recommends doxygen-latex; in sid, it even depends on it. With the default setting in apt to install recommended packages, this results by default in doxygen-latex being installed. Advanced users can easily avoid that with apt-get --no-install-recommends or by pinning doxygen-latex with a negative priority, but for the average Joe the default will just happen. On 32-bit wheezy, doxygen alone requires a 2.5 MB download and 7.5 MB disk space; if doxygen-latex is also installed, the requirements jump to 633 MB download and 963 MB disk space (that's a 128 bloat factor and 25% of the footprint of a clean wheezy install). Consider the following facts: 1) according to popcon data (http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=doxygen), 8220 people installed doxygen, but only 3219 installed doxygen-latex (39%) 2) the author of doxygen makes available binaries for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, all without latex bundled 3) to use doxygen-latex, GENERATE_LATEX must be set to YES in the doxygen configuration file; looking in the 2050 doxygen configuration files present in the debian sources (http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=GENERATE_LATEX++), 1415 have GENERATE_LATEX set to NO and 562 have it set to YES (27%) 4) a google search for doxygen "GENERATE_HTML YES" returns 59900 hits, whereas a search for doxygen "GENERATE_LATEX YES" returns 22000 hits (36%) All this considered, it appears that of 100 users of doxygen, about 25 to 40% actually use doxygen-latex. This is not the majority, and a 128x increase in disk space is really a high price to pay to serve one in three users. Consequently I think that doxygen should merely suggest doxygen-latex. BTW, there is a related downstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/doxygen/+bug/846314 -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages doxygen depends on: ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5 Versions of packages doxygen recommends: ii doxygen-latex 1.8.1.2-2 Versions of packages doxygen suggests: pn doxygen-doc <none> pn doxygen-gui <none> ii graphviz 2.26.3-14 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
