Hi Simon, thanks for revving the conversation on this bug. I'll summarize below my points.
Il 20/08/20 11:08, Simon McVittie ha scritto: > On Wed, 05 Feb 2020 at 11:56:16 +0100, Paolo Greppi wrote: > ... > smcv > - in general printable documentation is less relevant now than it used to be - but some people may still need it, so doxygen-latex is useful in general, it mostly works fine, and we should try to keep it in Debian - occasionally packages that build printable documentation (PDF or PS) with doxygen-latex have tripped (and will trip in the future) on obscure bugs in latex or doxygen or doxygen-latex or some-fancy-latex-plugin - when this happens, I'll try to address it with the help of upstream, the latex maintainer and the latex community, but it may take a long time to fix or may be practically impossible to fix (because it's a messy tangle of old software, or because some-fancy-latex-plugin is no more supported, or some other obscure reason) - when that takes really too long, on a case-by-case basis, and as a last resort, I would suggest the maintainers of those specific packages to (temporarily) drop PDF/PS documentation and only produce HTML docs, or to work with their upstream to switch to other PDF/PS generation toolchains as was suggested by Dimitri In conclusion, I'll downgrade this bug to non-RC and if Aurelien is OK, I propose to close it. Paolo
