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Bug 335784

Summary: media-gfx/freewrl still relies on media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: axs
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 343449    
Bug Blocks: 282754    

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-09-03 12:03:09 UTC
Since media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera is becoming deprecated (see bug #282754),
I am reviewing packages still depending on it for trying to make them depend on
virtual/ttf-fonts or media-fonts/dejavu

The problem with media-gfx/freewrl is that I think it really requires
media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera and, then, if you are able to confirm that,
could you ask upstream to think about moving to media-fonts/dejavu?

Thanks a lot


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-09-03 13:39:02 UTC
I expect that freewrl will work with media-fonts/dejavu instead; will test and have the ebuild updated if it does.

Comment 2 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-09-03 14:36:06 UTC
..ok. So i did a test on my system with ttf-bitstream-vera removed and dejavu installed, and everything seems to work fine.

HOWEVER, the Vera fonts are actually hard-coded, and so as far as I can tell it _should not_ be working.  I'd like to hold off on OK'ing this until I can find out why, and possibly also patching the code upstream to be sure it's working properly.

BTW, I reviewed bug #282754 and this doesn't seem to say that ttf-bitstream-vera is being deprecated, just that vera fonts are being virtualized...?  Is ttf-bitstream-vera actually going to be removed from the tree?
Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-09-03 20:58:32 UTC
It won't be removed (I think) but they are no longer developed and contains some unfixed bugs (I remember that I had to start using dejavu years ago because of some missing symbols), also, dejavu fonts *should* replace bitstream-vera... but looks that it's not as easy on some packages :-(
Comment 4 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-09-09 17:41:57 UTC
I've submitted a patch upstream that will provide support for fontconfig; my initial tests have shown it to work and if everything goes well, this would allow freewrl to depend on any outline font that provides sans, serif, and monotype faces.

I'll close this bug (or ask Patrick to do it) as soon as the next release occurs.
Comment 5 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-09-09 17:42:49 UTC
Great :-O, thanks a lot for your work
Comment 6 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-06-22 14:09:39 UTC
freewrl was converted to using fontconfig as of the 1.22.10 release; closing bug.