Hello,

doxygen currently only builds on a handful of architectures due to its build dependency
on "uglifyjs" which has a transitive runtime dependency on nodejs [1].

Since the doxygen package is widely used by many other packages, it should not limit
it's buildability due to the use of jquery and it's transitive dependency on nodejs.

It seems that doxygen itself builds fine without jquery, so I'm not 100% sure what it's
for.

Can you elaborate on this? If it's necessary, can it be moved to the arch-all package?

Thanks,
Adrian

Hi Adrian, and thanks for raising this good point!

Indeed doxygen builds fine, and it even apparently runs fine without jQuery.
The problem is that when directed to generate docs in HTML format, the
output uses jQuery. If jQuery is not bundled at package build time, the
resulting HTML docs are broken.

To see a sample HTML output from doxygen, have a look at its own online
docs (these files were produced with doxygen itself):
https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/index.html
.... here JQuery for example makes the left panel list items collapse /
expand.

The JQuery JavaScript library and its ecosystem are obsolete so phasing
it out is a good idea and one that I strongly support. But it is not
something that as a maintainer I can do; the refactor would take
upstream a lot of effort, and that is tracked in the forwarded issue.

If you just want to address the buildability of doxygen and its reverse
build-dependencies on archs such as sparc64 where nodejs is not
available, in the short term I see the following two options:

1. Since the idea is not really to port Debian on sparc64 to build
documentation, and doxygen is used in Debian to build docs, we could on
make doxygen less blocking, by making as many as possible (or at least
the most direly required) of its reverse build-dependencies be able to
build without it in the nodoc build profile. Not sure if this is enough
though.

2. Along the lines of what Helmut Grohne proposed yesterday in the
related thread here: https://bugs.debian.org/736432
"adding a pkg.doxygen.prebuiltjs build profile that would drop the
uglifyjs dependency in favor of using the minified JQuery in the source
tarball without rebuilding it", I can propose a slightly modified
workaround, "adding a pkg.doxygen.nonuglifiedjs build profile that would
drop the uglifyjs dependency in favor of using the non-uglified version
of JQuery". I did a quick proof-of-concept here:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/doxygen/-/tree/wip/paolog/nonuglifiedjs
I tested the so modified doxygen package and it seems to produce
functioning HTML output. Of course we don't want to do this for all
archs so we still need to create the build profile and enable it on
sparc64, which I am clueless about. Feel free to push commits to that
git branch if you know how to do that!

Hope this helps.

Paolo

owner 1123978 Paolo Greppi <paolo.greppi@libpf.com>
tag 1123978 pending
thanks

I am working to upload version 1.17, recently released by upstream,
which should close this one.
The WIP will appear here: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/doxygen

Paolo

Hi,

This should be fixed in Doxygen 1.18.0 [1]. Can you please update the package?

Thanks,
Adrian

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
doxygen, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1123978@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paolo Greppi <paolo.greppi@libpf.com> (supplier of updated doxygen package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:09:46 +0200
Source: doxygen
Architecture: source
Version: 1.17.0+ds-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Paolo Greppi <paolo.greppi@libpf.com>
Changed-By: Paolo Greppi <paolo.greppi@libpf.com>
Closes: 736432 1123978 1135301
Changes:
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