Bug#1121698: transition: graphviz

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 06:10:25PM +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com> wrote:
> > On 2025-12-13 16:30, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > If graphviz Depends: libgvplugin-pango resolves these dramas then
> > > please do it.
>  I will do it for the time being.
> 
> > > A package using dot to make png shouldn't need to have to know to try
> > > to figure out which random backend engine graphviz is using to do it.
>  Image generation, including png, is already a hard dependency. Text
> generation, font handling is not always present and that is not a hard
> dependency at the moment.
> 
> > Looks like there also should be
> >
> >     graphviz Depends: libgvplugin-poppler
>  Yes, as noted it would handle text generation in images. I will add it.

I wonder whether the following would be a better solution:
- contents of graphviz moved into a new package graphviz-core
- new metapackage graphviz depends on graphviz-core and all(?) plugin packages

Most users (including users upgrading from trixie) expect graphviz to 
provide all functionality.

A meta package setup would make installing only some plugins opt-in for 
users and other packages who know what plugins exactly they need.

> Regards,
> Laszlo/GCS

cu
Adrian