We study the compatibility of the formal degree conjecture and the parabolic induction process in the simplest nontrivial case for quasi-split $p$-adic groups. For a generic discrete series $\pi$ induced from an irreducible supercuspidal $\sigma$ of a maximal Levi subgroup, we compute the quotient $d(\pi)/d(\sigma)$ of formal degrees under some assumptions. As an application, we verify the conjecture for discrete series of split $\mathrm{ G}_2$ supported on maximal Levi subgroups.
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