Bug#494687: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libtype1.so: undefined symbol: Type1RegisterFontFileFunctions

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 18:01:41 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2008-08-11 15:45:25 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > You're mixing the x server from etch with libxfont1 from lenny/sid,
> > where the type1 font rasterizer isn't built.  I don't think this is a
> > bug (technically the libXfont ABI changed incompatibly, but...).
> 
> Why isn't there a dependency rule that would prevent this combination,
> then?
> 
Because you don't want to use the type1 module anyway.

> The problem is that I need to keep the X server from etch, but want
> the latest version of the packages that don't directly depend on it,
> and I expect the dependency rules to take care of that.
> 
That's fine.  Think of the failure to load type1 as a feature.

Cheers,
Julien