Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 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 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. It remains to be seen whether mkttfdir handles font-family names containing hyphens correctly.... -- 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 xbase-clients depends on: ii cpp 4:3.3.5-3 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdps1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Display PostScript (DPS) client li ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Athena widget set library ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Input extension li ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxmuu1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 lightweight X Window System miscel ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X pixmap library ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii libxtrap6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol-trapping ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System event recording an ii libxv1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System video extension li ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibmesa-glu [libg 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System client data ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
