[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#749545: birdfont: segmentation fault after "SearchPaths.vala:149: ucd not found"

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: birdfont
Version: 0.37-2
Severity: normal

I just installed birdfont here and tried to run it with the following error:

0 dkg at tyr:~$ birdfont
birdfont version 0.37
built on Tue May 27 12:08:57 2014

** (birdfont:21950): WARNING **: SearchPaths.vala:149: ucd not found

** (birdfont:21950): WARNING **: CharDatabaseParser.vala:135: Error opening file: No such file or directory

** (birdfont:21950): WARNING **: SearchPaths.vala:149: ucd not found

** (birdfont:21950): WARNING **: CharDatabaseParser.vala:136: In /usr/share/unicode/ucd/NamesList.txt
Segmentation fault
139 dkg at tyr:~$ 

I went ahead and installed unicode-data while trying to track down the
problem, and after installing unicode-data, i get the following errors
instead:

0 dkg at tyr:~$ birdfont
birdfont version 0.37
built on Tue May 27 12:08:57 2014

** (birdfont:22048): WARNING **: Font.vala:741: unicode: U+; charset=utf-8


** (birdfont:22048): WARNING **: Font.vala:742: Expecting a number (;).
Segmentation fault
139 dkg at tyr:~$ 

Either way, it's a segfault.  This happens even if i remove
~/.birdfont to make it start with totally clean settings.

thanks for maintaining birdfont in debian,

	    --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-powerpc-smp (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages birdfont depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                 2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                       2.18-7
ii  libcairo2                   1.12.16-2
ii  libfontconfig1              2.11.0-5
ii  libfreetype6                2.5.2-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0          2.30.7-1
ii  libgee2                     0.6.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.40.0-3
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.24.23-1
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0  2.4.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0              1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0         1.36.3-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0           1.36.3-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                2.46.0-2
ii  libwebkitgtk-1.0-0          2.4.2-1
ii  libxml2                     2.9.1+dfsg1-3

Versions of packages birdfont recommends:
pn  unicode-data  <none>

birdfont suggests no packages.

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