On 2020-08-31 10:21, Paolo Greppi wrote: > 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.
I have finally been able to get it working with some tweaks. I therefore the bug can now be closed. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
