[Bug 828027] Re: plymouth dependency dejavu font missing

[Steve Langasek]

Ok, when you say "at the right time", what do you mean?  Do you mean
that the initramfs hooks were being run before the plymouth package, and
all of its dependencies, were fully installed?

The lack of direct dependency on the font is definitely a bug, and we'll
definitely fix that - I'm just trying to make sure I understand if
fixing that will actually solve the problem that you were running into.
If it's a question of initramfs hooks running before the plymouth-label
package is fully configured (i.e., all its dependencies installed), that
would need a different sort of fix than just changing the package
dependencies.

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Title:
  plymouth dependency dejavu font missing

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The plymouth-Package (and his plymouth*-dependencies) does not contain the font deja-vu-sans-Font. The file is in ttf-dejavu-core, but is no dependency of plymouth (but of vlc).
  So, if you install a ubuntu without vlc (e.g. because of own packaging), plymouth will show no messages on bootup, but little little boxes instead of characters.

  This bug is around since lucid (plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2)

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