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  1. Bug #31910
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 31910

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Ming Hua (minghua) wrote : Re: [Bug 31910] Dejavu Sans crashes applications for specific characters

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:19:48AM -0000, Kostas Papadimas wrote:
> Comment:
> Also seems that there are some mistakes in the ttf-
> dejavu_2.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb package:
>
> 1)The ttf-dejavu.hints provides wrong names for
> a)DejaVuSansMono.ttf (lists the font as DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf)
> b) DejaVuSansMono-BoldObligue.ttf (lists them as DejaVuSansMono-BoldOb.ttf)
> c) DejaVuSerif.ttf (lists them as DejaVuSerif-Roman)
>
> This has as a result in erroneous listing and broken symlinks of Dejavu
> fonts in defoma related directories
>
> 2)ttf-dejavu.hints does not provide ISO8859-7 for the dejavu fonts

I think these should be filed as separate bugs. I'll definitely look at
problem (1) and try to get out a patch. It seems to affect Debian as
well.

Ming
2006.02.22