Bug#539571: gnome-terminal fails to start without libgnome2-common

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

forwarded 539571 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590774

Andrew Price wrote:
> Package: gnome-terminal
> Version: 2.26.2-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> After installing Debian on a new system I installed gnome-terminal
> without its recommends (I use wmii instead of gnome) and when I started
> gnome-terminal it aborted with this message:
> 
>   $ gnome-terminal
>   **
>   ERROR:terminal-app.c:1433:terminal_app_init: assertion failed:
>   (app->system_font_desc != NULL)
>   Aborted
> 
> After some semi-systematic testing I found that the package which needs
> to be installed to stop this happening is libgnome2-common. This package
> is normally pulled in indirectly when gnome-terminal is installed with
> recommends. Perhaps it should be a dependency instead?

I'd rather fix it properly so that libgnome isn't needed (the dependency has
just been removed on 2.26). I've forwarded it upstream.

Cheers,
Emilio

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