fonts missing in Ubuntu 16.10

[Uwe Kretschmer]

On Ubuntu 16.10 there is something wrong with dejavu fonts, showing up by trying to use them with scribus or scribus-ng. On Ubuntu 16.04 all worked fine.

The fonts aren't loaded into scribus, just one: DejaVu Math TeX Gyre Regular

Font packages fonts-dejavu are all installed.

I issued this as scribus bug (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=14475), but the maintainers said it's not a scribus thing. I tried the suggested solution to upgrade libfreetype6, but neither 2.6.5 nor 2.7 worked for me.

I also tryed to downgrade libfreetype6 and fonts-dejavu to the working versions on Ubuntu 16.04, but also no success.

But using the dejavu fonts in e.g. libreoffice works fine.

Ubuntu 16.10 amd64
fonts-dejavu 2.37-1
libfreetype6 2.6.3-3ubuntu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lutz (skandal)]

I can confirm the behavior:

Ubuntu 17.04 amd64
scribus-ng 1.5.2
fonts-dejavu 2.37-1
libfreetype6 2.6.3-3ubuntu2.1

[LR (lr-lr)]

affects me as well