Package: doxygen-latex
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

doxygen-latex is an arch:all package which depends on arch:any doxygen
with the latest version. Is that really necessary? Relaxing this to,
say, >= 1.7, would allow slower architectures to skip needing to always
build the latest doxygen immediately, a common problem with arch:all
packages depending on arch:any packages.

If there’s some reason, no problem. But if there’s none, a change
would probably be appreciated.

Thanks,
//mirabilos (m68k buildd hat)

Hi,

this bug has been sitting idle for a long time.

doxygen-latex is a pure dependency package.
It installs pretty much nothing, it just pulls in the right dependencies,
among them is doxygen itself, which it makes sure is on par or more recent than
its own version.

So it is similar to python3.7 or python3.8.

Its build dependencies can choose to request a specific version like this:
doxygen-latex (=1.8.15).

Of the 66 packages that mention doxygen-latex in debian/control that I could
find:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3Adebian%2Fcontrol+doxygen-latex
only avr-libc versions it: doxygen-latex (>=1.8.7).

Currently doxygen builds fine on most archs:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=doxygen
Can you name a case where doxygen-latex has caused trouble recently ?
If not, please close this bug.

Thanks,

Paolo