Bug#1051154: FTBFS with doxygen 1.9.8

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible

On 2023-09-03 17:50:52 +0200, Paolo Greppi wrote:
> Package: libcaca-dev
> Version: 0.99.beta20-3
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the
> past)
> X-Debbugs-Cc: paolo.greppi@libpf.com
> 
> While preparing to upload doxygen 1.9.8, I did a partial rebuild of packages
> that build-depend on it.
> More info here: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/doxygen/-/wikis/ratt_doxygen_1.9.8+ds-1_amd64-partial
> 
> Of 510 packages I tried, 6 failed and one is libcaca-dev.
> 
> The build error was:
> 
>   The control sequence at the end of the top line
>   of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>   misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>   spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>   and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
> 
>   ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [text input levels=15].
>   \tabu@textbar ...ar \m@ne \scantokens {\def \:{|}}
>                                                     \expandafter \endgroup
> \ex...
>   l.46 \begin{DoxyParams}{Parameters}
>                                     ^^M
>   If you really absolutely need more capacity,
>   you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
> 
> 
>   Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>   18690 strings out of 477695
>   304727 string characters out of 5831649
>   1925759 words of memory out of 5000000
>   38172 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
>   560241 words of font info for 97 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
>   14 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
>   101i,15n,117p,1820b,797s stack positions out of
> 10000i,1000n,20000p,200000b,200000s
>   !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>   make[3]: *** [Makefile:663: stamp-latex] Error 1
> 
> I attach the full build log.

I'm afraid I am unable to reproduce the issue. Any hint how to reproduce
it?

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher