[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#702345: charmap.app: only partial window shown

[Michal Suchanek]

Excerpts from Yavor Doganov's message of Sun Jun 01 04:11:41 +0200 2014:
> reassign 702345 gnustep-back
> severity 702345 normal
> tags 702345 + moreinfo unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> Please excuse me for the belated reply.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 03:29:35PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > The top of the Charmap window is not shown. It is not possible to
> > resize the Charmpa window to larger size than shown.
> > 
> > Terminal is spammed with Charmap[551] styleoffsets ... guessing offsets
> > 
> > I am using non-reparenting window manager.
> 
> This is a gnustep-back issue.  Please provide the output of:
> 
> 1.  $ update-alternatives --display gnustep-back-020
> 2.  $ defaults read NSGlobalDomain GSBackend
> 3.  The name/version of your window manager, so that I could try to
>     reproduce the bug.
> 
> Does it happen with the other GNUstep backend?  With another WM?
> 
> >   APT policy: (910, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (410, 'unstable'),
> >   (200, 'experimental'), (150, 'precise-updates'), (150,
> >   'precise-security'), (150, 'precise')
> 
> Whoa.
> 
> > ii  gnustep-back0.20                       0.20.1-2.1
> > ii  gnustep-base-runtime                   1.24.0-1
> > ii  gnustep-common [gnustep-fslayout-fhs]  2.6.2-2
> > ii  gnustep-gpbs                           0.22.0-1
> > ii  gnustep-gui-runtime                    0.22.0-1
> > ii  libgnustep-base1.22                    1.22.1-4
> > ii  libgnustep-gui0.20                     0.20.0-3+b1
> 
> Even more "whoa".  You have an impossible mixture of packages.  Have
> you forced the installation of some?

I probably used some sort of manual installation and/or backported
packages because there were indeed issues with the backend. It's also
possible that apt failed halfway during install and I did not notice.

Anyway, it works now with
ii  charmap.app                                    0.2-11+b1                                          amd64        Character map for GNUstep
ii  gnustep-back-common                            0.20.1-2.1                                         all          GNUstep GUI Backend - common files
ii  gnustep-back0.20                               0.20.1-2.1                                         all          GNUstep GUI Backend
ii  gnustep-back0.20-art                           0.20.1-2.1                                         amd64        GNUstep GUI Backend (art)
ii  gnustep-base-common                            1.22.1-4                                           all          GNUstep Base library - common files
ii  gnustep-base-runtime                           1.22.1-4                                           amd64        GNUstep Base library - daemons and tools
ii  gnustep-common                                 2.6.2-2                                            amd64        Common files for the core GNUstep environment
ii  gnustep-gpbs                                   0.20.1-2.1                                         amd64        GNUstep PasteBoard server
ii  gnustep-gui-common                             0.20.0-3                                           all          GNUstep GUI Library - common files
ii  gnustep-gui-runtime                            0.20.0-3+b1                                        amd64        GNUstep GUI Library - runtime files
ii  libgnustep-base1.22                            1.22.1-4                                           amd64        GNUstep Base library
ii  libgnustep-gui0.20                             0.20.0-3+b1                                        amd64        GNUstep GUI Library

Thanks

Michal