Bug#539571: gnome-terminal fails to start without libgnome2-common

[Andrew Price]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.26.2-2
Severity: normal


After installing Debian on a new system I installed gnome-terminal
without its recommends (I use wmii instead of gnome) and when I started
gnome-terminal it aborted with this message:

  $ gnome-terminal
  **
  ERROR:terminal-app.c:1433:terminal_app_init: assertion failed:
  (app->system_font_desc != NULL)
  Aborted

After some semi-systematic testing I found that the package which needs
to be installed to stop this happening is libgnome2-common. This package
is normally pulled in indirectly when gnome-terminal is installed with
recommends. Perhaps it should be a dependency instead?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc5-plato40 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data          2.26.2-2    Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.26.0-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                        2.9-12      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.80-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.26.2-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.20.1-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.16.1-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                      2:1.0.5-1   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                       2:1.1.0-2   X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0     0.10-1      library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                      1:0.20.5-1  Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.2.2-1   X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.2.2-2    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
pn  yelp                          <none>     (no description available)

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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