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On 2015-09-18 14:47 (+0200), Frédéric Parrenin wrote:
> So, why fontconfig/pango does not fallback on arial?
> Is this a bug?
Fishing for bugs? ;-)
To the best of my knowledge, this is not a bug (neither in Inkscape nor in your distro's default font backend configuration) - it's a choice made by the distro, likely based on the default configuration files distributed with fontconfig.
I'm somewhat surprised that a Debian user wants to have a non-free font with a proprietary license as default fallback font of the distro's font backend - and even suspects a bug if the font backend falls back to a free, open-licensed and widely-used font (DejaVu Sans, usually). Likely you could customize the font configuration (for the system, or the current user account), though instructions for creating custom font configs on Linux distros are neither Inkscape-specific, nor within the scope of Inkscape's bug tracker.