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@Richardk2n: thanks for info. I have updated the package.

I also have re-enabled the docs building as the dblatex bug has been fixed.

A dependency was split out. To get it to compile again I had to add "git+https://gitlab.gnome.org/ZanderBrown/xpm-pixbuf.git"to source, 'SKIP' to md5sums and ln -s "$srcdir/xpm-pixbuf" "$srcdir/dia/subprojects/xpm-pixbuf" to the start of build()

@marek22k I reported the dblatex bug today. It may take some time for it to get fixed. I posted a workaround in the comment below.

Doesn't work for me:

[540/558] Generating doc/en/en-dia.pdf with a custom command
FAILED: doc/en/dia.pdf 
/usr/bin/dblatex -t pdf -q -o doc/en/dia.pdf ../doc/en/dia.xml
warning: failed to load external entity "/usr/xsl/latex_book_fast.xsl"
compilation error: file /tmp/tmpu15u78lu/custom.xsl line 6 element import
xsl:import : unable to load /usr/xsl/latex_book_fast.xsl
warning: failed to load external entity "/usr/xsl/common/mkdoclist.xsl"
compilation error: file doclist.xsl line 7 element import
xsl:import : unable to load /usr/xsl/common/mkdoclist.xsl
Unexpected error occured
Error: xsltproc failed
[544/558] Generating doc/eu/eu-dia_html with a custom command
Writing ch01.html for chapter(intro-chapter)
Writing ch02s02.html for sect1(starting-dia)
Writing ch02s03.html for sect1(quickstart-intro)
Writing ch02s04.html for sect1(creating-canvas)
Writing ch02s05.html for sect1(making-diagram)
Writing ch02s06.html for sect1(save-print-diagram)
Writing ch02s07.html for sect1(who-appeal-too)
Writing ch02.html for chapter(quickstart-chapter)
Writing ch03s02.html for sect1(gridlines)
Writing ch03s03.html for sect1(Rulers)
Writing ch03s04.html for sect1(background-color)
Writing ch03s05.html for sect1(zooming)
Writing ch03.html for chapter(canvas-chapter)
Writing ch04s02.html for sect1(using-objects)
Writing ch04s03.html for sect1(object-properties)
Writing ch04s04.html for sect1(colors)
Writing ch04.html for chapter(objects-chapter)
Writing ch05.html for chapter(basic-objects-chapter)
Writing ch06s02.html for sect1(special-object-categories)
Writing ch06.html for chapter(special-objects-chapter)
Writing ch07s02.html for sect1(how-to-select)
Writing ch07.html for chapter(selecting-chapter)
Writing ch08s02.html for sect1(loadsave-filetypes)
Writing ch08.html for chapter(loadsave-chapter)
Writing ch09.html for chapter(usage-customization)
Writing ch10s02.html for sect1(layers-basics)
Writing ch10s03.html for sect1(viewing-layers)
Writing ch10.html for chapter(layers-chapter)
Writing ch11.html for chapter(authors-chap)
Writing ch12.html for chapter(license-chapter)
Writing index.html for book(index)
[547/558] Generating doc/de/de-dia_html with a custom command
Writing ch01.html for chapter(intro-chapter)
Writing ch02s02.html for sect1(starting-dia)
Writing ch02s03.html for sect1(creating-canvas)
Writing ch02s04.html for sect1(making-diagram)
Writing ch02s05.html for sect1(save-print-diagram)
Writing ch02s06.html for sect1(quickstart-commandline)
Writing ch02s07.html for sect1(who-appeal-too)
Writing ch02.html for chapter(quickstart-chapter)
Writing ch03s02.html for sect1(gridlines)
Writing ch03s03.html for sect1(Rulers)
Writing ch03s04.html for sect1(background-color)
Writing ch03s05.html for sect1(zooming)
Writing ch03s06.html for sect1(view-menu)
Writing ch03s07.html for sect1(undo-redo)
Writing ch03.html for chapter(canvas-chapter)
Writing ch04s02.html for sect1(using-objects)
Writing ch04s03.html for sect1(object-properties)
Writing ch04s04.html for sect1(colors)
Writing ch04s05.html for sect1(diagram-tree)
Writing ch04.html for chapter(objects-chapter)
Writing ch05.html for chapter(basic-objects-chapter)
Writing ch06.html for chapter(special-objects-chapter)
Writing ch07s02.html for sect1(how-to-select)
Writing ch07s03.html for sect1(working-with-selected)
Writing ch07.html for chapter(selecting-chapter)
Writing ch08s02.html for sect1(loadsave-filetypes)
Writing ch08.html for chapter(loadsave-chapter)
Writing ch09.html for chapter(authors-chap)
Writing ch10.html for chapter(license-chapter)
Writing apa.html for appendix(gfdl)
Writing index.html for book(index)
[551/558] Generating doc/en/en-dia_html with a custom command
Writing ch01s02.html for sect1(news)
Writing ch01.html for chapter(intro-chapter)
Writing ch02s02.html for sect1(starting-dia)
Writing ch02s03.html for sect1(creating-canvas)
Writing ch02s04.html for sect1(making-diagram)
Writing ch02s05.html for sect1(save-print-diagram)
Writing ch02s06.html for sect1(quickstart-commandline)
Writing ch02s07.html for sect1(who-appeal-too)
Writing ch02.html for chapter(quickstart-chapter)
Writing ch03s02.html for sect1(gridlines)
Writing ch03s03.html for sect1(Rulers)
Writing ch03s04.html for sect1(background-color)
Writing ch03s05.html for sect1(zooming)
Writing ch03s06.html for sect1(view-menu)
Writing ch03s07.html for sect1(undo-redo)
Writing ch03.html for chapter(canvas-chapter)
Writing ch04s02.html for sect1(using-objects)
Writing ch04s03.html for sect1(object-properties)
Writing ch04s04.html for sect1(colors)
Writing ch04s05.html for sect1(diagram-tree)
Writing ch04.html for chapter(objects-chapter)
Writing ch05.html for chapter(basic-objects-chapter)
Writing ch06.html for chapter(special-objects-chapter)
Writing ch07s02.html for sect1(how-to-select)
Writing ch07s03.html for sect1(working-with-selected)
Writing ch07.html for chapter(selecting-chapter)
Writing ch08s02.html for sect1(loadsave-filetypes)
Writing ch08.html for chapter(loadsave-chapter)
Writing ch09.html for chapter(usage-customization)
Writing ch10s02.html for sect1(layers-basics)
Writing ch10s03.html for sect1(viewing-layers)
Writing ch10.html for chapter(layers-chapter)
Writing ch11s02.html for sect1(custom-shapes-shapes)
Writing ch11s03.html for sect1(custom-chapes-shape-desc)
Writing ch11s04.html for sect1
Writing ch11s05.html for sect1
Writing ch11s06.html for sect1(custom-shapes-sheets)
Writing ch11s07.html for sect1(custom-shapes-managing)
Writing ch11s08.html for sect1(custom-shapes-code)
Writing ch11.html for chapter(custom-shapes-chapter)
Writing re01.html for refentry
Writing ch12s02.html for sect1(commandline-manpage)
Writing ch12.html for chapter(commandline)
Writing ch13.html for chapter(authors-chap)
Writing ch14.html for chapter(license-chapter)
Writing index.html for book(index)
[557/558] Merging translations for sheets/EDPC.sheet
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: dia-git-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
dia-git - exit status 4

@Richardk2n is correct. The issue/regression seems to be dblatex. I found two workarounds:

1. Downgrade dblatex and use version 0.3.12-7 (can be found in the archive) or
2. patch /usr/bin/dblatex: line 5 should be package_base = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]), "../share/dblatex")

@Richardk2n Thanks for the heads up!

@RAMChYLD The package shipping latex_book_fast.xsl and mkdoclist.xsl is dblatex, which recently got updated. The files still exist but on a different path (/usr/share/dblatex/xsl/ instead of /usr/xsl/)

I found two issues with the current dia upstream. This might not be necessary in the future once it is future once it is fixed but I hope it will come in handy for those who needs Dia but run into trouble building it.

The first issue is it's not compatible with the current version of OGDF, Elderberry. Apparently Elderberry no longer ships with some headers that Dia wants to use, breaking it. I have yet to investigate what is the last version of OGDF Dia will build with, but what I can see is that it can be built without OGDF as a workaround for the time being.

The second issue is that the docs depend on some xsl files that no longer exists. For this I edited the PKGBUILD manually to set -Ddoc=false. I'm not sure what packages holds those files.

Here are a couple patches to enable XDG Base Directory Specification compliance.

0-the_asnwer_is_no.patch:

diff --git a/app/app_procs.c b/app/app_procs.c
index 3199a8dea..86964f7e0 100644
--- a/app/app_procs.c
+++ b/app/app_procs.c
@@ -1041,24 +1041,10 @@ create_user_dirs (void)
 {
   gchar *dir, *subdir;

-#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
-  /* not necessary to quit the program with g_error, everywhere else
-   * dia_config_filename appears to be used. Spit out a warning ...
-   */
-  if (!g_get_home_dir ()) {
-    g_warning (_("Could not create per-user Dia configuration directory"));
-    return; /* ... and return. Probably removes my one and only FAQ. --HB */
-  }
-#endif
-  dir = g_strconcat (g_get_home_dir (), G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S ".dia", NULL);
+  dir = dia_config_filename (NULL);
   if (g_mkdir (dir, 0755) && errno != EEXIST) {
-#ifndef G_OS_WIN32
-    g_critical (_("Could not create per-user Dia configuration directory"));
-    exit (1);
-#else /* HB: it this really a reason to exit the program on *nix ? */
-    g_warning (_("Could not create per-user Dia configuration directory. Please make "
-                 "sure that the environment variable HOME points to an existing directory."));
-#endif
+    g_warning (_("Could not create per-user Dia configuration directory"));
+    return;
   }

   /* it is no big deal if these directories can't be created */

1-xdg_data_home.patch:

index 6440f9e71..162d15a81 100644
--- a/lib/dia_dirs.c
+++ b/lib/dia_dirs.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ dia_get_locale_directory (void)
  * dia_config_filename:
  * @subfile: Name of the subfile.
  *
- * Get the name of a file under the Dia config directory. If no home
+ * Get the name of a file under the Dia config directory. If no config
  * directory can be found, uses a temporary directory.
  *
  * Returns: A string with the full path of the desired file. This string
@@ -132,12 +132,12 @@ dia_config_filename (const char *subfile)
 {
   const char *homedir;

-  homedir = g_get_home_dir ();
+  homedir = g_get_user_data_dir ();
   if (!homedir) {
     homedir = g_get_tmp_dir (); /* put config stuff in /tmp -- not ideal, but
                                  * we should not reach this state */
   }
-  return g_build_filename (homedir, ".dia", subfile, NULL);
+  return g_build_filename (homedir, "dia", subfile, NULL);
 }

It makes no sense to flag a -git package out of date, without there needing changes to fix sources moving or actual breakage fixing, which in this case, it doesn't, the package builds fine as of 2023-09-28, so can it please be unflagged?