[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#636855: fonts-vlgothic: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/vlgothic is missing

[Paul Wise]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.or.jp> wrote:

>  Thanks for your report, you say "some" applications, but except Java?
>  Yes, Java specifies its font path in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties
>  So we should update fontconfig.properties but not adding old path.

Much better would be if OpenJDK had a sane way to support fonts. It
should query the fonts available using fontconfig instead of
hard-coding direct paths to individual font files. The current way is
simply broken, I would suggest reassigning this bug to OpenJDK.

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bye,
pabs

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