Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

[Marius Bakke]

zimoun <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 15:55, Marius Bakke <address@hidden> wrote:
>> zimoun <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > Apparently, there is different fonts on master and core-updates, if yes 
>> > why?
>>
>> The only known difference since the core-updates merge is that
>> applications using Pango (e.g. GTK+) no longer recognizes bitmap fonts.
>>
>>   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386
>
> Thank you for the pointer but I think it is another issue.
>
>
>> > I mean, on my machine -- Guix on the top of Debian with font-dejavu
>> > installed -- why does commit 4bdf4182fe (core-update merge) not
>> > display correctly and the parent commit c81457a588 too but the other
>> > parent commit 23a59b180b displays nicely?
>>
>> Leo reported problems with fonts on Debian in
>> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/41132>, but said that fonts installed
>> with Guix still worked.  I don't know what could cause it to fail on
>> your system.
>
> Thank for the pointer, it seems the same issue.  But I am not sure
> because I am using the font from Guix.
>
> Well, I have font-dejavu-2.37 and fontconfig-2.13.1 installed in
> ~/.guix-profile from Guix e98689f.
>
>
> When I run
>
>     guix pull --commit=4bdf4182fe -p /tmp/bad
>
> then
>
>    display  /tmp/bad/share/info/images/bootstrap-graph.png
>
> there is an issue.  Note that 'imagemagick' is installed in
> ~/.guix-profile using the same commit above.
>
>
> The commit 4bdf4182fe is the commit of merge.  If I pull from the
> (left) parent commit, i.e., the commit c81457a588,
>
>   guix pull --commit=c81457a588 -p /tmp/left
>
> then
>
>   display  /tmp/right/share/info/images/bootstrap-graph.png
>
> displays nicely and the font is correct.  However, if I pull form the
> (right) parent commit, i.e., the commit 23a59b180b,
>
>   guix pull --commit=23a59b180b -p /tmp/right
>
> then
>
>   display  /tmp/right/share/info/images/bootstrap-graph.png
>
> displays wrongly.  Well, I have changed nothing, considering the
> fonts.  And the only difference is commit from "master" vs from
> "core-updates".  And as I explained [1], it always happens when
> core-updates is merged.

Missing fonts in the manual is another known issue and was not clear
from your initial message: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/41418>.

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