Font Problem in Hardy stops Fluxus from launching

Bug #248023 reported by AEZ
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Bug Description

When I try to launch fluxus I get the following error:

$ fluxus
PolyGlyph::PolyGlyph: could not load font: #debian/fluxus/usr/share/fluxus-0.14/material/fonts/Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono.ttf
fluxus: src/PolyGlyph.cpp:18: PolyGlyph::PolyGlyph(const std::string&): Assertion `0' failed.
Aborted
$

$ dpkg -l fluxus
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii fluxus 0.14rc1-2 create graphics live, interpreting audio and OSC input

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"

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Jamie Bullock (jamie-postlude) wrote :

I can reproduce this bug here. I have the font installed in:

/usr/share/fluxus-0.14/material/fonts/Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono.ttf

I wonder if the problem is related to the path prefix: #debian/fluxus ...? Is there a way to change this in the sources?

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Artem Baguinski (femistofel) wrote :

yep, this is a known packaging bug. I have to find time to fix it. Thanks for reminding me.

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