[ATrpms-devel] vlc: Missing Dep?

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 02:25:52PM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> When I was running vlc on F13, I noticed the following warning or error:
> 
> [0x7fd7180063b8] freetype spu text error: failed to load font file
> /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraSe.ttf
> 
> I installed bitstream-vera-serif-fonts which contains the above font. Should
> this rpm be listed as a vlc dependency to avoid the warning?

This is an old issue (in fact there was a thread about this on
ATrpms-users almost exactly a year ago). There was a change during F11
that broke the dependencies so I removed the dependency.

Given that there is no Fedora < 11 and that vlc doesn't build on RHEL3
for a long time now we could add a file dependency to
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraSe.ttf (older systems would have
this file under /usr/share/bitstream-vera/VeraSe.ttf instead making
the variants even worse.)

(why not simply bitstream-vera-serif-fonts? Because older RHELs and
Fedora had this file in bitstream-vera-fonts instead.)

There is already this part in the specfile:

## default subtitle font
##Requires: bitstream-vera-fonts
##Requires: %{_datadir}/bitstream-vera/VeraSe.ttf
#Requires: %{_datadir}/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraSe.ttf

E.g. all that is needed is to uncomment the last line. I will do so on
the next vlc update, thanks for bringing this up!
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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