Bug#916715: toulbar2: What will happen if testing migration takes longer than removal from testing

[Thomas Schiex]

> Hi Thomas,
>> Dear Andreas,
>>
>> Thanks for taking care of toulbar2. I did spend some time to try to go
>> around this #920459 bug but even a postprocessing of the LaTeX output of
>> doxygen (removing inclusion of the xcolor package that generates the
>> LaTeX compilation issue) did not work (another bug popped up, that was
>> apparently already met by other people using doxygen using the same
>> TexLive update but I found no workaround).
> I think doxygen is severly broken and just skipping refman.pdf (finally
> users can read other format) the only safe solution to keep the package
> in.  I added several FIXMEs to get it back for Buster+1.
My current (partial) understanding is that TexLive/LaTeX is broken (not
doxygen): TeXlive provides the tabu LaTeX package
(https://ctan.org/pkg/tabu) that doxygen uses but this tabu package does
not work anymore in TeXlive (not only for doxygen, but for all tabu
users). See #920621/#921272 saying that "upstream is working on it".
Probably this will not be fast as the README.md of tabu on CTAN says:

    The original author of tabu appears out of contact, and tabu had not
    been updated for several years, finally becoming unusable in 2019 as
    updates to other packages mean some of its patched code did not work
    as intended.

    The package is not being actively maintained however any major
    required fixes may be reported to the
    https://github.com/tabu-fixed/tabu repository and volunteers there
    (currently members of the LATEX3 Team) will attempt to update the
    package with any fixes required.

Getting rid of the PDF output as you suggest for eg. HTML is probably best.

Thomas



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