Bug#562726: xboard: font problem, crash

[h.g. muller]

I suppose the mentioned font must be in the recommended xfonts-100dpi package.
I don't think XBoard can run without an X-font. I am not sure why debian 
lists the fonts
as 'recommend' rather than 'depends'. I guess 'depends on A' means that it 
is absolutely
impossible that it would ever run without A being installed, under any 
conceivable
circumstances. And perhaps it is cnceivable that XBoard would run with some
other X-font package.

No one in his right mind would ever want to run XBoard with another font, 
though,
having to type something like

xboard -font "-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" -clockfont 
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

(with another font name) to accomplish that. This seems of another order than
saying that XBoard does not depend on any chess engine because you could
run it as game viewer through:

xboard -ncp

But anyway, the issue seems to depend purely on the Debian dependency
rules, and is not something we could fix up-stream.

H.G. Muller
XBoard developer