[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#609123: bluetile should depend on a proper fontset

[Luca Bruno]

Package: bluetile
Version: 0.5.1-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch

It looks like bluetile mandates a specific fontset, which is not
installed by default on Debian desktops.
In particular it is looking for:
./src/XMonad/Util/Font.hs:88:            fallBack d = const $ createFontSet d
"-misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

If it's not available, bluetile will start but in a weird and screwed-up
mode, spitting a lot of warning on console:
user error (createFontSet)
user error (createFontSet)
user error (createFontSet)

To be usable, I had to manually install the xfonts-base package on my system.
You may want to add a proper Depends: on it.

This problem may also be gone in newer 0.5.3, which claims to support
configurable
fontset.

Cheers, Luca



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bluetile depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-6         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libffi5                 3.0.9-3          Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-2.1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.4-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgmp3c2               2:4.3.2+dfsg-1   Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libgnome2-0             2.30.0-1         The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-2         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.3-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-4        X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.2-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                 2.1.14-2         FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1            2:1.1.1-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.7.8.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

bluetile recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bluetile suggests:
ii  gnome-core                    1:2.30+7   The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e

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