Package: ddd
Version: 1:3.3.12-5.2
Severity: important

When running ddd from terminal, warnings like these appear (in terminal):

    Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
    (Annoyed?  Try 'Edit->Preferences->General->Suppress X Warnings'!)
    Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
    Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
    Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct

and fonts in ddd are rather ugly. This is easily fixed by installing 
xfonts-100dpi package. Please add xfonts-100dpi into ddd dependency list.

This problem is long known, and was reported on [1].

[1] 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32533838/warning-when-running-ddd-in-ubuntu

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (400, 'testing-debug'), (400, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ddd depends on:
ii  libc6       2.29-2
ii  libgcc1     1:9.2.1-8
ii  libstdc++6  9.2.1-8
ii  libtinfo6   6.1+20190803-1
ii  libx11-6    2:1.6.8-1
ii  libxaw7     2:1.0.13-1+b2
ii  libxm4      2.3.8-2
ii  libxmu6     2:1.1.2-2+b3
ii  libxpm4     1:3.5.12-1
ii  libxt6      1:1.1.5-1+b3

Versions of packages ddd recommends:
ii  gdb             8.3.1-1
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.12

Versions of packages ddd suggests:
ii  cups-bsd [lpr]               2.3.0-5
pn  ddd-doc                      <none>
ii  glibc-doc                    2.29-2
ii  gnuplot-qt [gnuplot]         5.2.7+dfsg1-5
pn  info                         <none>
ii  openssh-client [rsh-client]  1:8.1p1-1
ii  perl                         5.30.0-7
pn  pydb                         <none>
ii  x11-utils                    7.7+4
ii  xterm                        349-1

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