[Debichem-devel] Bug#567600: ghemical should depend on xfonts-75dpi

[groenedraeck]

Herewith, I provide some additional information regarding bug
(567600), Ghemical's font problems, describing wwo scenarios.

On a freshly installed wheezy/sid installation of the Base system and
Standard system utilities, was installed the package gnome (3.0+7) and
all its dependencies. Hereafter, ghemical (3.0.0-1) (and all its
dependencies) was installed and started. ghemical failed to start and
died with the aforementioned 'GdkGLExt-WARNING **: cannot load
PangoFont'. So, the following packages were installed and ghemical
works again:
[INSTALL] x11-xfs-utils
[INSTALL] xfonts-100dpi
[INSTALL] xfonts-75dpi
[INSTALL] xfonts-scalable
[INSTALL] xfs
This fixed ghemical on this system, the program was used to draw some
structures, energy minimize them, some other modeling functions were
tried as well and all completed without errors.

Now, and this might be considered a serious addition to the current
bug report, on a freshly installed wheezy/sid installation of the Base
system and Standard system utilities, was installed the desktop
package kde-standard (i.e. kde-* 4.6.3) and all its dependencies.
Again, ghemical (3.0.0-1), and all its dependencies, were installed
and started. Again, and as expected, ghemical failed to start and died
with the aforementioned 'GdkGLExt-WARNING **: cannot load PangoFont'.
I thought to fix this by installing the following xfonts packages
x11-xfs-utils, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-scalable, xfs.
However, this did NOT fix ghemical its font errors and the program
fails to start on a KDE installation...

This bug renders ghemical useless on KDE desktops, and it wouldn't
surprise me if it goes beyond the reported dependency problem. It
seems to stem from a font-related configuration or setting somewhere
in the package or its implementation in Debian.