Debian Bug report logs - #578141
debian-specific wrong renaming of this font causes XeTeX problems

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Stapelberg <michael+db20090501@stapelberg.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: debian-specific wrong renaming of this font causes XeTeX problems

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:09:44 +0200

Package: ttf-linux-libertine
Version: 4.4.1-4
Severity: important

In #523186, a patch was introduced which renames LinLibertine_Re.ttf to
"Linux Libertine O" (check with fontforge
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_Re.ttf). Note that
the truetype font (.ttf) was renamed!

When downloading Linux Libertine in the same version (4.4.1) from sourceforge,
you get a tgz containing LinLibertine_Re-4.4.1.otf (name "Linux Libertine O")
and LinLibertine_Re-4.4.1.ttf (name "Linux Libertine"). In my opinion, bug
#523186 was fixed in a wrong way (by renaming the ttf to the otf name instead
of just including the otf fonts).

Now consider the following XeTeX document (say, mwe.tex):

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

When running "xelatex mwe.tex" with  the ttf-linux-libertine package, you get
the following error:

kpathsea: Invalid fontname `Linux Libertine', contains ' '

! Font \zf@basefont="Linux Libertine" at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file
 or installed font not found.
 \zf@fontspec ...ntname \zf@suffix " at \f@size pt
                                                   \unless \ifzf@icu \zf@set@...
l.3 \setmainfont{Linux Libertine}

When replacing the ttf files with the original ones from sourceforge, it works
fine. So, please do not include the patch renaming this font any longer, it
breaks documents.

PS: There later was a similar bug, #511145, which was "fixed" by applying a
workaround in fontconfig. I think XeTeX does not use fontconfig and thus
requires the font name to actually be correct.

-- Package-specific info:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                         Version                      Description
+++-============================-============================-========================================================================
ii  fontconfig                   2.6.0-4                      generic font configuration library - support binaries
ii  libfreetype6                 2.3.11-1                     FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  libxft2                      2.1.14-1                     FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii  texlive-xetex                2009-8                       TeX Live: XeTeX packages


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.8-midna-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

ttf-linux-libertine depends on no packages.

Versions of packages ttf-linux-libertine recommends:
ii  fontconfig                    2.6.0-4    generic font configuration library

ttf-linux-libertine suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 578141@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>

To: 578141@bugs.debian.org, 578141-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: ttf-linux-libertine

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:58:37 +0200

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Hi!

	I already had a version locally that would both build 'Linux
Libertine' as ttf and 'Linux Libertine O' as otf. However I first
wanted to do some more investigation wether we actually need both
variants etc.

	That whole thing dropped completely out of my attention when I was
really bussy during exames period which is now, thankfully,
over. Thanks for the remainder!

Regards

	Christoph

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Message #18 received at 578141@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>

To: Michael Stapelberg <michael+db20090501@stapelberg.de>, 578141@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#578141: debian-specific wrong renaming of this font causes XeTeX problems

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:26:02 -0300

Hi, Michael.

On Apr 17 2010, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> In #523186, a patch was introduced which renames LinLibertine_Re.ttf to
> "Linux Libertine O" (check with fontforge
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/linux-libertine/LinLibertine_Re.ttf). Note that
> the truetype font (.ttf) was renamed!

I have not yet checked the Linux Libertine packages, but this O thing is
a detail that I want to get rid of.

IMVHO, all these {otf,ttf,t1} prefixes are just a matter of
implementation details that should not matter to the end user. Of
course, the "should not" part is important, since we may still have
applications with problems with OpenType fonts.

OTOH, sticking with limited TTF and T1 fonts encoded in a myriad of
"standards" is a pain and just migrating to OTF seems to be the sane way
to go.

> When downloading Linux Libertine in the same version (4.4.1) from sourceforge,
> you get a tgz containing LinLibertine_Re-4.4.1.otf (name "Linux Libertine O")
> and LinLibertine_Re-4.4.1.ttf (name "Linux Libertine"). In my opinion, bug
> #523186 was fixed in a wrong way (by renaming the ttf to the otf name instead
> of just including the otf fonts).

A good thing to avoid these kludges would be to generate two packages
from the Linux Libertine fonts: the ttf and the otf flavors.

> Now consider the following XeTeX document (say, mwe.tex):

Anything that breaks TeX is serious. :-)

> When replacing the ttf files with the original ones from sourceforge, it works
> fine. So, please do not include the patch renaming this font any longer, it
> breaks documents.

Right. Breaking documents that people may exchange is very undesired.

> PS: There later was a similar bug, #511145, which was "fixed" by applying a
> workaround in fontconfig. I think XeTeX does not use fontconfig and thus
> requires the font name to actually be correct.

If I am not mistaken, XeTeX uses fontconfig and LuaTeX use(d?)
fontforge's font loading mechanisms. It seems that LuaTeX is migrating
from fontforge (has already?).


Regards,

-- 
Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8
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DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br

Message #23 received at 578141@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>

To: Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>, 578141@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 578141-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#578141: ttf-linux-libertine

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:45:10 -0300

Hi.

On Apr 17 2010, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 	I already had a version locally that would both build 'Linux
> Libertine' as ttf and 'Linux Libertine O' as otf. However I first
> wanted to do some more investigation wether we actually need both
> variants etc.

Yes, it seems that upstream has adopted that convention, it seems.

The easy way to go is to just create two packages. Another way might be
to generate only the OpenType fonts and create an alias for the fonts.

Of course, this second solution may present problems to applications
that don't use a modern font manipulation system like fontconfig or an
otf-aware X/font server.


Regards,

-- 
Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8
http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de
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Message #33 received at 578141-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>

To: 578141-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#578141: fixed in linux-libertine 4.7.5-1

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:02:11 +0000

Source: linux-libertine
Source-Version: 4.7.5-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
linux-libertine, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

linux-libertine_4.7.5-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/l/linux-libertine/linux-libertine_4.7.5-1.debian.tar.gz
linux-libertine_4.7.5-1.dsc
  to main/l/linux-libertine/linux-libertine_4.7.5-1.dsc
linux-libertine_4.7.5.orig.tar.bz2
  to main/l/linux-libertine/linux-libertine_4.7.5.orig.tar.bz2
ttf-linux-libertine_4.7.5-1_all.deb
  to main/l/linux-libertine/ttf-linux-libertine_4.7.5-1_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 578141@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (supplier of updated linux-libertine package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:52:03 +0100
Source: linux-libertine
Binary: ttf-linux-libertine
Architecture: source all
Version: 4.7.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force <pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
Description: 
 ttf-linux-libertine - Linux Libertine family of fonts
Closes: 578141 581839 602845
Changes: 
 linux-libertine (4.7.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Team upload
 .
   [ Rogério Brito ]
   * Add myself to Uploaders. Closes: #581839.
   * Make the long description more detailed and with more keywords.
   * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.1 with no further changes.
   * Set the maintainer of the package to the Debian Fonts Task Force.
   * Add TODO document with the next steps for Linux Libertine.
 .
   [ Christian Perrier ]
   * Use "fontforge-nox | fontforge" in Build-Depends
   * New upstream version. Closes: #602845
   * Drop now useless 01-fontname.patch. Closes: #578141
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