[pkg-fgfs-crew] Bug#743169: flightgear: Failure to open font files

[Jaap Keuter]

Package: flightgear
Version: 3.0.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When launching FGFS through FGrun a log window opens up showing some details of the progress of system initialization.
Depending on aircraft type there are one or more reports on failure to open font files, like this:

canvas::Text: Failed to open font file <path>

where path is:
/usr/share/games/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/games/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/games/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/LiberationMono-Bold.ttf

Looking at the file system the font files are there:
$ file /usr/share/games/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/games/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf: TrueType font data
$ file /usr/share/games/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/games/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf: TrueType font data
$ file /usr/share/games/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/LiberationMono-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/games/flightgear/Fonts/LiberationFonts/LiberationMono-Bold.ttf: TrueType font data

I would expect FGFS to be able to use these fonts for improved text representation.

Thanks,
Jaap


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages flightgear depends on:
ii  flightgear-data-all       3.0.0-1
ii  freeglut3                 2.8.1-1
ii  libc6                     2.18-4
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.0-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.8.2-16
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.1.0-4
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    9.0.0-2
ii  libgsm1                   1.0.13-4
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.8-2
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-2
ii  libopenal1                1:1.14-4
ii  libopenscenegraph99       3.2.0~rc1-4
ii  libopenthreads14          3.2.0~rc1-4
ii  libplib1                  1.8.5-7
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.50-1
ii  libsimgearcore3.0.0       3.0.0-2
ii  libsimgearscene3.0.0      3.0.0-2
ii  libsm6                    2:1.2.1-2
ii  libspeex1                 1.2~rc1.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.3.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.8.2-16
ii  libudev1                  204-8
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxi6                    2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.1.1-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

flightgear recommends no packages.

flightgear suggests no packages.

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