Package: plantuml Version: 1:1.2026.2+ds-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have discovered a missing dependency for one of PlantUML's features; the ability to generate LaTeX TikzPicture Diagrams from PlantUML depends on XeLaTeX, which is not listed as dependency, recommendation, or suggestion for the PlantUML package.
I initially discovered the error attempting to use the PlantUML LaTeX package; a version of this is included in Debian Stable under the texlive-pictures program, but I was using the upstream version from https://github.com/koppor/plantuml due to an unrelated bug in the Debian version. When rendering the LaTeX document, it kept failing to generate the diagram, leaving a placeholder in the final document. I looked through the output of "latexmk --shell-escape" and discovered the PlantUML command it was using and the error it output: "Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "xelatex" (in directory "/tmp/plantuml-latex-15114716460106052846"): Exec failed, error: 2 (No such file or directory)" I thus installed XeLaTeX via the texlive-xetex package, and the LaTeX rendering was successful. The bug can be reproduced with nothing but this version of the PlantUML package (no need for the afforementioned LaTeX package or a LaTeX environment): 1. Create a PlantUML source file; mine was called "db_diagram.txt" and contained the following contents: @startchen entity Song{ Name : STRING <<key>> Run Time : INTEGER Release Date : DATE Singer : STRING <<multi>> } entity Album{ Name : STRING <<key>> Release Date : DATE } relationship Has { } Album -N- Has Has -N- Song @endchen 2. Execute PlantUML as follows (with necessary adjustments if you do different file names; this is simply how it occured in my environment): java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar "/usr/share/plantuml/plantuml.jar" -charset UTF-8 -pipe -tlatex:nopreamble < "db_diagram.txt" > "plantuml-227EB927E17C89053D29C52E29CF6502-converted-to.tex" In an environment without texlive-xetex or another XeLaTex installation, this fails to generate a TeX file and instead returns Java errors related to xelatex being being missing. This could be solved by adding texlive-xetex as a dependency, or at least a recommendation and sufficient documentation. -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.95+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages plantuml depends on: ii default-jre-headless 2:1.21-76 ii libavalon-framework-java 4.2.0+ds-1 ii libbatik-java 1.18+dfsg-2 ii libcommons-io-java 2.19.0-1 ii libcommons-logging-java 1.3.0-2 ii libfontconfig1 2.15.0-2.3 ii libfop-java 1:2.10+dfsg-2 ii libfreetype6 2.13.3+dfsg-1+deb13u1 ii libharfbuzz0b 10.2.0-1+deb13u1 ii libjlatexmath-java 1.0.7-4 ii libxml-commons-external-java 1.4.01-6 ii libxmlgraphics-commons-java 2.10-3 Versions of packages plantuml recommends: ii graphviz 2.42.4-3 plantuml suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
