Bug#657704: [snowballz] snowballz is unable to start due to missing font

[Dean Evans]

Package: snowballz
Version: 0.9.5.1-2.1
Severity: serious

snowballz linked to the TSCu_Comic.ttf from the ttf-tamil-fonts package
which has since removed the TSCu* fonts from their package [0] causing
snowballz to refuse to start with the traceback below.

[0] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/t/ttf-indic-fonts/current/changelog#version1:0.5.13

 * Removed TSCu and TAMu family of fonts from package. These fonts use legacy
     encoding. (Closes: #428025, #441901)


TraceBack:

dean at sidspace:/usr/share/games/snowballz/data% snowballz
/usr/share/games/snowballz/font.py:3: UserWarning: 
*******************************************************************************
The rabbyt.fonts module is deprecated and will be removed in a future
version of rabbyt.  I recommend using pyglet for font rendering.

If you still want to use pygame fonts, check out the ``pygame_font.py``
example included with rabbyt.
*******************************************************************************

  import rabbyt.fonts
/usr/share/games/snowballz/font.py:3: UserWarning: 
The rabbyt.vertexarrays module is deprecated and will be removed in a
  future version of rabbyt.

  import rabbyt.fonts
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "snowballz.py", line 614, in <module>
    data.load_font()
  File "/usr/share/games/snowballz/data.py", line 431, in load_font
    chat_font = font.Font("data/TSCu_Comic.ttf", 20)
  File "/usr/share/games/snowballz/font.py", line 14, in __init__
    f = pygame.font.Font(facename, pixel_height)
IOError: unable to read font filename


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  500 unstable        ftp.au.debian.org 
  500 stable          deb.opera.com 

--- Package information. ---
Depends              (Version) | Installed
==============================-+-===========
python                (>= 2.4) | 2.7.2-10
python-pygame                  | 1.9.1release+dfsg-5
python-opengl                  | 3.0.1~b2-1
python-numpy                   | 1:1.5.1-3
python-imaging                 | 1.1.7-4
python-rabbyt                  | 0.8.1-1+b2
ttf-tamil-fonts                | 1:0.5.14


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