[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#573983: montage: unable to read font (null)

[Martin Gallant]

Package: imagemagick
Version: 7:6.6.0.4-1
Severity: normal

After a clean upgarde Lenny->Sid, montage gives the following error -
(Perhaps a missing dependency in imagemagick package?)

Testcase:

$  montage test.jpg test1.jpg
montage: unable to read font `(null)' @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1044.


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-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/dash

Versions of packages imagemagick depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-4          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.22.4-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgomp1                4.4.3-3          GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62               6b-16.1          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1                1.18.dfsg-1.2+b1 Color management library
ii  liblqr-1-0              0.4.1-1          converts plain array images into m
ii  libltdl7                2.2.6b-2         A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libmagickcore3          7:6.6.0.4-1      low-level image manipulation libra
ii  libmagickwand3          7:6.6.0.4-1      image manipulation library
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libtiff4                3.9.2-3+b1       Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-2        X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.1-3        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages imagemagick recommends:
ii  ghostscript                  8.71~dfsg-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libmagickcore3-extra         7:6.6.0.4-1 low-level image manipulation libra
ii  netpbm                       2:10.0-12.1 Graphics conversion tools between 
ii  ufraw                        0.16-1+b1   standalone importer for raw camera

Versions of packages imagemagick suggests:
pn  autotrace            <none>              (no description available)
ii  cups-bsd [lpr]       1.4.2-9.1           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  curl                 7.20.0-1            Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or 
pn  enscript             <none>              (no description available)
pn  ffmpeg               <none>              (no description available)
ii  gimp                 2.6.8-2             The GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii  gnuplot              4.2.6-1             A command-line driven interactive 
pn  grads                <none>              (no description available)
ii  groff-base           1.20.1-9            GNU troff text-formatting system (
pn  hp2xx                <none>              (no description available)
pn  html2ps              <none>              (no description available)
pn  imagemagick-doc      <none>              (no description available)
pn  libwmf-bin           <none>              (no description available)
pn  mplayer              <none>              (no description available)
pn  povray               <none>              (no description available)
pn  radiance             <none>              (no description available)
pn  sane-utils           <none>              (no description available)
ii  texlive-binaries [te 2009-5              Binaries for TeX Live
pn  transfig             <none>              (no description available)
ii  xdg-utils            1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from

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