msttcorefonts: Throws a number of 'uninitialized variable' errors during installation

[Ben Okopnik]

Package: msttcorefonts
Version: 1.2ubuntu3
Severity: normal


During the initial installation, 'msttcorefonts' repeatedly reported the
following error:

Use of uninitialized value in print at /var/lib/defoma/scripts/gs.defoma line 108.

It also had the following errors:

opendir: No such file or directory
warning: /usr/share/fonts/X11/truetype does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype does not exist or is not a directory

The original error had scrolled off the screen and out of the screen
buffer by the time the installation was over; I tried replicating it by
doing a 'dpkg --purge msttcorefonts' and reinstalling, but only the
second set of errors came up the second time. I even tried adding an
error reporting procedure to "gs.defoma" (had it create a file in /tmp
and write all the variables used on line 108, along with labels for
them, into that file) - but it didn't do that on the second run.

Please let me know if there's some way I can help you troubleshoot
further.


Best regards,
Ben Okopnik
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers edgy-backports
  APT policy: (500, 'edgy-backports'), (500, 'edgy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-10-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages msttcorefonts depends on:
ii  cabextract               1.1-1           a program to extract Microsoft Cab
ii  debconf                  1.5.2ubuntu2    Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils              2.16.2          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  defoma                   0.11.10         Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii  wget                     1.10.2-2ubuntu1 retrieves files from the web
ii  xutils                   1:7.1.1ubuntu6  X Window System miscellaneous util

Versions of packages msttcorefonts recommends:
ii  x-ttcidfont-conf              24ubuntu1  Configure TrueType and CID fonts f

-- debconf information:
  msttcorefonts/http_proxy:
  msttcorefonts/defoma:
  msttcorefonts/dlurl:
  msttcorefonts/savedir:
  msttcorefonts/baddldir:
  msttcorefonts/dldir:
  msttcorefonts/blurb: