ok, after a few tests, i have an update:
- debian testing has freetype 2.8.0, which does not has the bug affecting the way dejavu is seen by scribus.
- scribus will not automatically recognize again dejavu, you first have to manually force scribus to re-create the font cache by
- quitting scribus,
- removing (or, better renaming) the ~/.config/scribus/checkfonts150.xml file
- starting scribus
- debian stable (stretch, debian 9) still has 2.6.3 and i'm not sure if it will ever get 2.6.5+ (the ones without the bug)
- the relevant bug in debian was
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837800 ... closed.
personally, if you're not using your computer as a server, i would suggest you to use debian testing instead of debian stable for desktop usage.
hope that helps...
a.l.e