[Pkg-freeciv-devel] Bug#464227: freeciv-client-sdl: civclient-sdl refuses to start because it needs some fonts that can not find

[Israel Herraiz]

Package: freeciv-client-sdl
Version: 2.1.2-1
Severity: important

Hello,

civclient-sdl refuses to start because it lacks some fonts:

$ civclient-sdl
2: Using Video Output: x11
1: Cannot find sound spec-file "stdsounds".
2: To get sound you need to download a sound set!
2: Get sound sets from
<ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/contrib/audio/soundsets>.
2: Proceeding with sound support disabled
0: Could not open font:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
0: No usable default theme found, aborting!

The mentioned font is installed in the system. The problem seems to be
that theme config does not work with absolute paths.

Copying the mentioned font to
/usr/share/games/freeciv/themes/gui-sdl/human and changing
/usr/share/games/freeciv/themes/gui-sdl/human/theme.themespec
accordingly (see font_file variable), seems to fix this problem.

Regards,
Israel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages freeciv-client-sdl depends on:
ii  freeciv-data           2.1.2-1           Civilization turn based strategy g
ii  freeciv-server         2.1.2-1           Civilization turn based strategy g
ii  libc6                  2.7-6             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libsdl-image1.2        1.2.6-2           image loading library for Simple D
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2        1.2.8-3           mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.13-1          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  ttf-arphic-uming       0.1.20060928-2.2  "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni" Chinese Uni
ii  ttf-dejavu-core        2.22-1            Vera font family derivate with add
ii  ttf-sazanami-gothic    0.0.1.20040629-3  Sazanami Gothic Japanese TrueType 
ii  ttf-unfonts            1.0.1-6           Un series Korean TrueType fonts
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

freeciv-client-sdl recommends no packages.

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