On 2011-01-25 21:40+0100 Bernhard R. Link wrote:
package gv
close 611053
thanks
* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> [110125 20:15]:
To recap, in my original message I said
<quote>
Google searches for these types of warning messages turned up rather
old advice to install xfonts-100dpi and gsfonts-x11. I have
done that, but the warning messages persist.
</quote>
(Probably that old advice was yours. :-) )
But what I forgot to do was to restart X (which I thought of for
myself just before I received your e-mail suggesting it). When I did
that 268 Helvetica fonts were listed by xlsfonts and gv no longer
emits the warning messages.
Ok, I'm closing this bug report then.
Before doing that you might want to consider suggesting or recommending
xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi for the gv package.
However, there is an interesting question still remaining which is why
didn't I see these warning messages when I used gv before? From my
bash history, I had a big burst of gv activity ~3 weeks ago, and I am
sure I would have noticed these warning messages then.
If you manage to reproduce the effect, let me know.
Hmmm. I am a pretty good developer, but I do have difficulty with time
travel back to the status of my system 3 weeks ago. :-)
Seriously, for this case I do have to rely on memory (and especially
my probable reaction to seeing such warning messages for an
application that I use heavily).
I have complete logs of what is installed on my system, and
xfonts-100dpi has never been installed until now. And only
one version of gv has been installed during the life of this
OS (I originally installed Debian testing on this system last August).
Perhaps some library that gv depends on has been updated recently
to generate these (incorrect, I believe, see below) warning
messages?
The libraries gv uses are not really subject to change. And with no
fonts available, this font cannot be found.
OK. It appears you believe the only solution to this puzzle is I
didn't notice the warning messages for the thousands of times I have
used gv since I installed the system last year. I think that is
extremely unlikely but, of course, always possible.
I guess we should leave it there unless others (who don't have one of
xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi installed because they are currently not
recommended/suggested for gv) suddenly notice warning messages that
were not there before.
Alan
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