neverball crashed with SIGSEGV in TTF_SizeUNICODE(), after using feature documented on developer website

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Binary package hint: neverball

Version 1.5.4-3ubuntu1
Copied over levelsets into data directory as documented by developers, added entries as needed to sets.txt
Expected levelsets to show up in menu, instead, program fails to initialize.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: neverball 1.5.4-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Apr 20 09:00:12 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/games/neverball
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcCmdline: neverball
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb84338 <TTF_SizeUNICODE+40>: mov (%ecx),%eax
 PC (0x00b84338) ok
 source "(%ecx)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: neverball
StacktraceTop:
 TTF_SizeUNICODE () from /usr/lib/libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0
 TTF_RenderUNICODE_Blended () from /usr/lib/libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0
 TTF_RenderUTF8_Blended () from /usr/lib/libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0
 make_image_from_font ()
 gui_label ()
Title: neverball crashed with SIGSEGV in TTF_SizeUNICODE()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-19 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

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StacktraceTop:
 TTF_SizeUNICODE (font=0x0, text=0xbfe98720, w=0xbfe986ec, h=0x0) at SDL_ttf.c:925
 TTF_RenderUNICODE_Blended (font=0x0, text=0xbfe98720, fg=...) at SDL_ttf.c:1618
 TTF_RenderUTF8_Blended (font=0x0, text=0x8074292 "Coins", fg=...) at SDL_ttf.c:1591
 make_image_from_font ()
 gui_label ()

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[ockels (ockels)]

sudo apt-get install ttf-dejavu-core fixes this issue

[Ted Gifford (tedfordgif)]

Confirming fix from ockels. Does that just mean a dependency needs to be added to the neverball/neverput package(s)?