Package: freeciv-client-sdl
Version: 3.2.1+ds-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
On a GNOME testing/unstable desktop system, freeciv-client-sdl doesn't
start. Running from a terminal, it outputs:
3: Migrating options from sdl to sdl2 client
3: Using Video Output: x11
0: Could not open font: ./../fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
0: No usable default theme found, aborting!
or when running it from the GUI, the same messages appear in the systemd
Journal.
I encountered this while testing the version of sdl2-compat in
experimental (which switches the default SDL 2 implementation from
"classic" SDL 2 to sdl2-compat), but it is equally reproducible using
"classic" SDL 2
(export SDL_DYNAMIC_API='/usr/$LIB/sdl2-classic/libSDL2-2.0.so.0').
Perhaps the UI theme data needs updating for a changed font directory,
or perhaps it is resolving the given relative path from an unexpected base
directory?
On my test system, /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
exists as a regular file of size approximately 744K.
If I edit /usr/share/games/freeciv/themes/gui-sdl2/human/theme.themespec
like this:
```diff
-default_font_file = "./../fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
+default_font_file = "../../fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
```
to match the paths configured for CJK fonts, then it seems to work OK.
smcv
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (102, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.17.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages freeciv-client-sdl depends on:
ii fonts-arphic-uming 0.2.20080216.2-11
ii fonts-dejavu-core 2.37-8
ii fonts-ipafont-gothic 00303-23
ii fonts-noto-cjk 1:20240730+repack1-1
ii freeciv-data 3.2.1+ds-1
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-6
ii libc6 2.42-6
ii libcurl3t64-gnutls 8.18.0~rc2-1
ii libicu76 76.1-4
ii liblua5.4-0 5.4.8-1
ii liblzma5 5.8.2-1
ii libsdl2-2.0-0 2.32.62+ds-1
ii libsdl2-gfx-1.0-0 1.0.4+dfsg-7
ii libsdl2-image-2.0-0 2.8.8+dfsg-2
ii libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 2.8.1+dfsg-5
ii libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0 2.24.0+dfsg-3
ii libzstd1 1.5.7+dfsg-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b2
Versions of packages freeciv-client-sdl recommends:
ii freeciv-server 3.2.1+ds-1
Versions of packages freeciv-client-sdl suggests:
pn freeciv-client-extras <none>
-- no debconf information
