I have tested upstream Debian Edgy vnc4server_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21_i386.deb vnc4-common_4.1.1+X4.3.0-21_i386.deb and other than the font path issue (solved by a single symlink), they work properly. I also tested upstream vnc-4.1.2 (from realvnc.com) and it worked properly too, though I had to plunk a bunch of symlinks into the system to deal with the differences between how Red Hat does things and how Ubuntu does things (realvnc.com's is compiled against RHEL). This is not a bug in upstream. This is a bug introduced by the Ubuntu packaging team.
I have tested upstream Debian Edgy vnc4server_ 4.1.1+X4. 3.0-21_ i386.deb vnc4-common_ 4.1.1+X4. 3.0-21_ i386.deb and other than the font path issue (solved by a single symlink), they work properly. I also tested upstream vnc-4.1.2 (from realvnc.com) and it worked properly too, though I had to plunk a bunch of symlinks into the system to deal with the differences between how Red Hat does things and how Ubuntu does things (realvnc.com's is compiled against RHEL). This is not a bug in upstream. This is a bug introduced by the Ubuntu packaging team.