Not really a bug but wouldn't it be nice to include mkttfontdir, since XFree now comes with truetype support? Also freetype or maybe it's mkttfontdir's fault generate X font entries which netscape doesn't really like, it accepts them but doesn't see them as scalable. Xfstt on the other hand works with some kind of special encoding in the font names which netscape seems to understand reasonable well.
assigned to pbrown
xfstt doesn't even use X compatible fonts.scale and fonts.dir, actually it deviates from the X font specification rather majorly in several areas. This is why we have decided to use Xfstt instead of xfsft. mkttfontdir should be included in the freetype package; it is packaged there instead of with X directly, because it most directly relates to freetype. Until X officially has TrueType support (instead of our patches) this will most likely remain the case. I know about the Netscape scaling issue, but see this more as a fault of Netscape than of the font server. Other programs don't have this issue.
I'm sorry, where I say "use xfstt instead of xfsft" the two font server names should be reversed. We use xfsft not xfstt.