Package: doxygen
X-Debbugs-Cc: g...@nonempty.org
Version: 1.9.8+ds-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

As documented upstream in issue 10354 [1], Doxygen will when MathJax is
enabled generate documentation that makes requests to a third-party
website when viewed. This is obviously problematic from a privacy point
of view, as users expect offline documentation to be offline. For
examples of this happening, see e.g. reports for Lintian's
privacy-breach-generic tag [2].

Upstream's version 1.10.0 was released just a few days ago, and fixes
the issue [3]. Alternatively, the behavior should be easy to patch out
(I'm happy to provide a patch/MR).

[1] https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/issues/10354

[2] https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag.cgi?tag=privacy-breach-generic

[3] https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/changelog.html#log_1_10_0

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