[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#568049: gnumail.app: GNUMail systematically segfaults at startup

[Yavor Doganov]

clone 568049 -1
reassign -1 gnustep-back-common 0.16.0-3
severity -1 serious
retitle -1 Generates incomplete nfont bundles which makes the art backend unusable
fixed -1 0.17.1-1
thanks

At Tue, 2 Feb 2010 07:49:36 -0500,
Ian D. Leroux wrote:
> Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
> > Ian D. Leroux wrote:
> > > it reproducibly segfaults after giving a long list of font-related
> > > errors and an out-of-range exception.
> > 
> > apparently the defoma script doesn't work reliably anymore.  Does
> > GNUMail work if you install gnustep-back0.16-cairo and do (as a normal
> > user):
> > 
> > $ defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend libgnustep-cairo
> 
> That does remove the font-related errors.

I managed to reproduce this part of your bug report on a squeeze
system after purging+reinstalling the GNUstep stack.

As the art backend relies on .nfont packages (aka bundles) which are
generated in postinst with the Defoma gnustep-nfont script, and Debian
font packages started to agressively drop defoma use, the script now
generates only a tiny fraction of the available fonts.

This should be fixed in the version of gnustep-back in experimental,
which is defoma-free and generates them with the help of mknfonts.tool
based on the output of fc-list.  (Uploading -gui and -back to unstable
is pending permission from the release team.)