bug#2994: Recent change to font.c:font_load_for_lface affects variable-pitch face in the modeline

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <f7ccd24b0904160414h1482a99bid0afcccd7043d213@mail.gmail.com>, 
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm setting variable-pitch to use a family of "DejaVu Serif":
[...]
> and I *have* a DejaVu Serif face:

ELISP> (x-list-fonts "DejaVu Serif")
> ("-outline-DejaVu Serif-normal-italic-normal-serif-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1"
[...]
> but still, when I insert (propertize " " 'face 'variable-pitch), I get
> FreeIdgSerif:

I can't reproduce your problem on Ubuntu.  Please try this:

% emacs -Q
ESC : (set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch nil :family "DejaVu Serif") RET
ESC : (setq font-log nil) RET
ESC : (insert (propertize " " 'face 'variable-pitch)) RET
M-x font-show-log RET

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Kenichi Handa
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