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Bug#574061: marked as done (fonts from optional xfonts-base package is hardcoded into /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm)

Your message dated Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:49:51 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#574061: #574061 fonts from optional xfonts-base package is hardcoded into /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
has caused the Debian Bug report #574061,
regarding fonts from optional xfonts-base package is hardcoded into /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
to be marked as done.

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Package: xterm
Version: 256-1
Severity: normal

I have well working system without package.
But some fonts from xfonts-base hardcoded into /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
For example: *VT100.utf8Fonts.font:  -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

So when I run xterm I receive:
xterm: cannot load font -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

And xterm doesn't suggest or recommends xfonts-base.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-6       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1            2.8.0-2        generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.6-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libutempter0              1.1.5-2        A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp 
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.3.3-2      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.7-1      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxft2                   2.1.14-2       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.7-1      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.1.0-1        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+3      X11 utilities

Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn  xfonts-cyrillic               <none>     (no description available)

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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:47:15 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> Aside from having the package either suggest or depend on xfonts-base,
> I don't see anything that needs to be changed.
> 
Depends is not an option, because dependencies on (core) fonts don't
achieve anything (the font needs to be available to the server, which
might be on a different machine, and even that could be through a font
server, on yet another machine).

I'm not convinced we need Suggests either; xfonts-base is depended on by
the 'xorg' metapackage, so most systems should have it.  If people want
to uninstall the xorg package, they can just as well tweak xterm
resources to use 'fixed' (which is always available) or a font using
xft.

Closing this bug.

Cheers,
Julien

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