Bug#169101: cluttered .diff.gz

[Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>]

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:20:33AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> >> -rw-r--r--    1 willy    willy     1884666 Nov 14 09:26 gcc-3.2_3.2.1ds5-0pre6.diff.gz
> >
> > the big diff is the pregenerated libstdc++ documentation.

I thought the library documentation was only in libstdc++?-doc, not the
gcc package.


> > The pages
> > are generated using doxygen and graphviz. Unfortunately graphviz is in
> > non-free ...
> 
> We could push upstream a bit harder to drop GraphViz.

Here's upstream's position on using GraphViz:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-02/msg00946.html

Find me a libre tool that produces output as nice as dot's, and that
Doxygen knows how to work with, and I'll use it.

Yours truly,
Upstream


:-)

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