Bug#366556: gnucash fails to start

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> A workaround with the side-effect that anyone with a FontPath of
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts/foo will be unable to see those fonts in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/foo, though.

Yes.  It's not a perfect workaround, merely a solution to that one
problem, in one case.  The bug is marked important (and its severity
can be increased, for all it matters to me), and my primary concern,
as the gnucash maintainer, is that it is not a gnucash bug; it's a
problem in the X packages.

I have no particular suggestions about how to handle the release
engineering of this; thinking about these problems invariably makes my
head hurt, and I'm grateful for those of my fellow developers who
excel in this skill which I, sadly, lack.

Thomas