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has caused the Debian Bug report #335072,
regarding ttf-bitstream-vera: should use mkttfdir and depend on fttools
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: ttf-bitstream-vera
Version: 1.10-3
Severity: important
After installing the ttf-bitstream-vera font package,
I find that X gives a "could not init fontpath element"
error message for the TrueType fonts. This appears to be
caused by faulty fonts.dir and fonts.scale files created in
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType directory; they have
blanks instead of underscores in the XLFDs for the Bitstream fonts.
The blanks make X barf when it tries to set up these fonts.
I have inspected the defoma hintfile installed with the Bitstream
package. It gives the font families as Bitstream-Vera-Sans,
Bitstream-Vera-Serif, etc., which is (I think) reasonable.
Probably the problem could be avoided for *this* font by changing
the hyphens to underscores; but it seems to me the X utilities
ought to be written to handle such cases gracefully, rather than
making everybody who packages a font worry about replacing (normal)
hyphens with (ugly) underscores in the defoma hintfiles. That's why
I'm also filing this bug against xutils (which provides mkfontdir)
and xbase-clients (the package that provides mkfontscale).
It may turn out that both these programs use some common xlib
function to parse fontnames and font-family names, in which case
this bug should be reassigned to the appropriate package.
Note, by the way, that defoma's Defoma::Id module correctly
handles these fonts, installing XLFD names with underscores in the
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/id-cache file.
A further complication is that Bug 219854 says that TrueType fonts
should be using mkttfdir rather than mkfontdir, and that a bug
report should be filed against font packages that violate this.
This is evidently the case with the Bitstream font package; I see my
system doesn't even have the fttools package installed, which should
have been a dependency of the font package if it had used mkttfdir.
Therefore, this report is filed against the font package.
It remains to be seen whether mkttfdir handles font-family names
containing hyphens correctly....
-- Package-specific info:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii fontconfig 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages ttf-bitstream-vera depends on:
ii defoma 0.11.8-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 32+nmu2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package x-ttcidfont-conf has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/654533
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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