Bug#673170: xfonts-100dpi: fonts not available until X restarted

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 16:06:44 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Julien Cristau wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:59:01 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>>> Trying to address <http://bugs.debian.org/563250> (xvile appearance
>>>> wrong due to missing font), I installed xfonts-100dpi.  Alas:
[...]
>>>>	$ xlsfonts | grep lucida
>>>>	$
[...]
>> Perhaps this could be documented somewhere, or it could be
>> automatically done by the calling maintainer script for the local X
>> server?  The problem is still present: after installing X fonts on a
>> pretty ordinary setup, they are not available for use.  Most new users
>> are not going to know about "xset fp rehash".
>
> They're also not going to be using xmessage, and client-side fonts are
> immediately picked up by fontconfig/xft/... on install.  So I think this
> is a non-issue.

That would be a reason not to package xfonts-100dpi at all, right?

I was using xmessage and xlsfonts to debug.  The actual affected
program was xvile.  I can imagine users running into this problem with
xterm as well.

Should I reassign this to xfonts-100dpi where it can be ignored until
someone has time for it, or to debhelper (dh_installfonts) which is
probably the right place to fix it?

Thanks for your help,
Jonathan