On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 06:10:25PM +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM Drew Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2025-12-13 16:30, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > If graphviz Depends: libgvplugin-pango resolves these dramas then > > > please do it. > I will do it for the time being. > > > > A package using dot to make png shouldn't need to have to know to try > > > to figure out which random backend engine graphviz is using to do it. > Image generation, including png, is already a hard dependency. Text > generation, font handling is not always present and that is not a hard > dependency at the moment. > > > Looks like there also should be > > > > graphviz Depends: libgvplugin-poppler > Yes, as noted it would handle text generation in images. I will add it.
I wonder whether the following would be a better solution: - contents of graphviz moved into a new package graphviz-core - new metapackage graphviz depends on graphviz-core and all(?) plugin packages Most users (including users upgrading from trixie) expect graphviz to provide all functionality. A meta package setup would make installing only some plugins opt-in for users and other packages who know what plugins exactly they need. > Regards, > Laszlo/GCS cu Adrian
