On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 08:51:25 +0200 Matijs van Zuijlen <mat...@matijs.net> wrote:

Dear maintainer,

The folder /usr/local/share/fonts turned out to be empty. Removing it
stopped the messages appearing.

Oh, thank you so much, that was driving me crazy. In fact, maybe the severity for this bug could be upgraded, since

(a) seems to be related to bug #897251 (which was then apparently resolved via a workaround, but still...); the exact chain of events that triggers the message on stderr is very well laid out in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897251#18

(b) it hits the "gretl" program quite badly: gretl uses gnuplot as its graphical engine, and throws an error if gnuplot throws something on stderr (which is what happens if you have an empty /usr/local/share/fonts dir).

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  Università Politecnica delle Marche
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