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

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:49:35 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> That would be a reason not to package xfonts-100dpi at all, right?
> 
It'll probably die eventually, yes.

> 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?
> 
One way to "fix" it would be to have X / xfs watch its fontpath with
inotify or similar and automatically refresh things.  Nobody cares
enough about core fonts to implement that.
I don't see any way package maintainer scripts can be involved in a
"fix".

Cheers,
Julien