Package: angband
Version: 1:3.1.1.1626-1
Severity: important
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Angband has multiple display modes, selectable at runtime with the
'-m' command-line option. By default, it runs with the X11 mode.
Angband also installs a fair selection of fonts, in
/var/games/angband/xtra/font/. In the two non-X11 display modes, it
seems to load and use these fonts on its own.
In X11 display mode, however, Angband does not load the fonts which it
installs; instead, it relies on the fonts it needs being provided by
the X server.
The fonts needed by Angband's X11 mode are present in the xfonts-base
package. It is apparently possible to install the angband package
without having this package be installed.
If I install Angband - any version I've tested, including both the
latest version available via Debian and the one obtained by compiling a
quite recent upstream source tree - and try to run it with no arguments
on a machine which does not have the xfonts-base package installed, it
exits with an error message about not being able to load a needed font.
(I no longer have immediate access to such a machine, so I cannot
readily report the exact message.)
If I then install xfonts-base and restart X, the fonts are now present
in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc and are detected during X load, and
Angband runs fine.
Since it is possible to use Angband successfully in the other two
display modes, or to manually add the Angband font directory to the X
font search path, xfonts-base is not a hard dependency for the angband
package. However, since xfonts-base is necessary for the game to run
properly in its default mode, I would suggest that the angband package
include a 'Recommends: xfonts-base' line.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages angband depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for
terminal hand
ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.10-1 image loading library for
Simple D
ii libsdl-mixer1.2 1.2.8-6+b1 mixer library for Simple
DirectMed
ii libsdl-ttf2.0-0 2.0.9-1 ttf library for Simple
DirectMedia
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-5 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.2-1 X11 client-side library
angband recommends no packages.
angband suggests no packages.
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