newly installed fonts don't show up in hardy

[Akkana Peck]

In Hardy (beta), no fonts installed after the initial X installation are visible via the X font mechanism. Installing the same font packages in gutsy and feisty do add fonts to X.

Binary package hint: ttf-freefont

apt-get install ttf-freefont
Then look for free* in gtkfontsel or xfontsel.
They showed up under gutsy, but not on hardy beta.

(I have a fairly minimal install (from debootstrap), so it may be that the problem is a missing dependency.

[Akkana Peck (akkzilla)]

This isn't just a ttf-freefont problem -- none of the font packages, not xfonts-* nor ttf-* nor scripts like msttcorefonts, are adding themselves to the font list visible to X. Reassigning to fontconfig as a more general fonts-under-X package.

[Akkana Peck (akkzilla)]

Strike that about xfonts-* packages -- they do work, it's just the ttf packages and msttcorefonts that don't.

I've tried dpkg-reconfigure on several different font packages; on dpkg-reconfigure x-ttcidfont-conf, regardless of whether I choose freetype or xtt, it prints:

Cleaning up category cmap..
Cleaning up category cid..
Cleaning up category truetype..
Updating category truetype..
Updating category cid..
Updating category cmap
opendir: No such file or directory

I'm guessing this "No such file or directory" may be related to the ttf files not showing up.

Searching on that, I found debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437674
and indeed, the fix found in that file (replace the nonexistent path names with ones that actually exist) seems to cure the problem. Could hardy also take that fix?

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

@ubuntu-main-sponsors:
Please sync version 27 from Debian unstable. It fixes this bug.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

ACKed.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Getting binaries for hardy...
[Updating] x-ttcidfont-conf (26 [Ubuntu] < 27 [Debian])
 * Trying to add x-ttcidfont-conf...
  - <x-ttcidfont-conf_27.tar.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <x-ttcidfont-conf_27.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
I: x-ttcidfont-conf [main] -> x-ttcidfont-conf_26 [main].