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Notes about issue fonts_in_pdf_files in buster

Identifier: fonts_in_pdf_files
Suites: unstable / trixie / bookworm / bullseye / buster / experimental
Description: The internally used names/identifiers of fonts embedded into PDF files varies.
The order of embedded fonts can also be different.
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The order is only different if the date differs (set by TZ environment
variable for example). If the date is the same, then the font name
is reproducible. Difference in hour/minute/second resolution seems
to be irrelevant.
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The font name occurs in the /BaseFont field and in the /Fontname field.
The name is of the form XXXXXX+YYY where the XXXXXX part is the one that
varies and is called the subset_tag. It is generated in
texk/web2c/pdftexdir/utils.c function make_subset_tag() from an MD5 sum
over the font glyphs.
Packages in 'buster' known to be affected by this issue:
(the 1/4 most-popular ones (within this issue) are underlined)

reproducible icon 12 reproducible packages in buster/amd64: bacula-doc dune-common flann form libu2f-server logidee-tools ocaml-atd pasdoc pmw sollya soundscaperenderer yosys

FTBFS icon 2 FTBFS packages in buster/amd64: debmake-doc firehol

FTBR icon 38 unreproducible packages in buster/amd64: ask asymptote avr-libc cafeobj canl-c code-saturne cxxtest dia dune-localfunctions enblend-enfuse galax gdcm gl2ps gnubg gnustep-make kannel-sqlbox kicad libtheora libtommath live-manual minlog mpich mrpt nordugrid-arc-doc paw python-pcs rheolef systemtap tcode topal ufoai vite weka winff yacas graphviz+ libu2f-host+ manderlbot#

 

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