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Bug#335064: marked as done (xbase-clients: mkfontscale installs faulty fonts.scale for ttf-bitstream-vera pkg.)

Your message dated Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:19:32 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#335063: xutils: mkfontdir installs faulty fonts.dir for ttf-bitstream-vera pkg.
has caused the Debian Bug report #335063,
regarding xbase-clients: mkfontscale installs faulty fonts.scale for ttf-bitstream-vera pkg.
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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

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Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> (22/03/2007):
> About 2 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding
> ttf-bitstream-vera fonts not being installed properly. Can you
> reproduce this problem with Xorg/Etch?

3 years later, closing, got no reply…

Mraw,
KiBi.

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