Bug#156115: Could you update the status of this bug please?

[Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:35:45PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I haven't quite figured out how to detect whether the bug is present or not.
> (How do I spot whether a fontname is a 'fixed size' name for a scalable font,
> or a real fixed-size font?)
> 
> Is this bug still present in the current X.org in 'sid' or 'etch'?  It looks to
> me like it is, but I'm not 100% sure.
> 
> -- 
> Nathanael Nerode  <neroden@fastmail.fm>
> 
> Read it and weep.
> http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html
> 

I haven't been able to reproduce the original bug because one of the
condition needed was Bug#156118 which has been fixed in the meantime.

However I have been able to verify that the other conditions are still
met and the X behavior can still be reproduced:

  - X server at 75 dpi

  - the Type1 module is loaded in the X server

  - the directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 is at the end of X fontpath

  - package gsfonts-x11 installed

I have run the following commands:

### install package gsfonts-x11
# apt-get install gsfonts-x11

### start a new X server (as root)
# startx /usr/bin/icewm -- :1 -dpi 75 &

### in new display open an xterm and run the following script:

#!/bin/sh
xset fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
xset fp rehash
xlsfonts -fn "-*-helvetica-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" | grep p-0-iso8859-1

You should see the following output:

-adobe-helvetica-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-bold-i-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-bold-o-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-bold-o-narrow--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-narrow--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-i-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-o-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-o-narrow--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-narrow--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1

The bogus fonts are those with pxlsz=12 and awgWdth=0. Note that
the pxlsz depends on the dpi of the server and will be different
if you run the server at a different dpi.

I don't know if it is correct for the X server to list scalable fonts
as fixed fonts but in that case I think they should be listed *after*
the true fixed fonts, while at the present it is the contrary:

$ xlsfonts -fn "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-116-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1

In other words it could be simply a problem of sorting the results
in a better way.

Since the Tk bug has been fixed you can't reproduce the bug with
wish but you can show a similar behavior with the following commands:

xfd -fn `xlsfonts -fn "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" | head -1` &
xfd -fn `xlsfonts -fn "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" | tail -1` &

I have run the test on ubuntu hoary with the following packages:

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  xserver-common 6.8.2-10.2                files and utilities common to all X servers
ii  xserver-xorg   6.8.2-10.2                the X.Org X server
ii  gsfonts        8.14+v8.11+urw-0.1ubuntu1 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
ii  gsfonts-x11    0.17                      Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11

-- 
Massimo Dal Zotto