Bug#570751: gtk-doc-tools: can not generate the pdf documentation

[Simon Josefsson]

ons 2014-09-10 klockan 19:27 +0200 skrev Andreas Henriksson:
> Hello Simon Josefsson!
> 
> Thanks for your patch for the gtkdoc-mkpdf problem.
> 
> I'm just wondering if this shouldn't be both a build *and*
> runtime dependency though?

Hello.

I'm not convinced it should be.  The reason is that the package works
fine without dblatex.  How about a Recommends or Suggests instead?  If
someone wants to produce PDFs with gtk-doc, they of course also need
dblatex installed.  However, in my experience, this is rare, since you
need to pass --enable-gtk-doc-pdf explicitly when you run ./configure
for gtk-doc to build the PDF.  Further, since this bug has been around
for several years, and few has +1'd the bug report, presumably few
people use the feature.  If more people had generated GTK-DOC PDFs they
would have run into the problem that gtkdoc-mkpdf did not work.  But
that's not the case, so I think should be Recommends at most.

/Simon

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