Bug#1006932: fontconfig: new upstream version 2.13.96 available

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2022-04-06 09:41:20 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 08/03/2022 14:22, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > A new upstream version 2.13.96 is available.
> > 
> > Upstream says that "2.13.96 has some improvements around mutex lock",
> > so that it might fix bug 1006720 (though I could not find the cause
> > and could not reproduce the issue yet). Note that unless I have new
> > information, bug 1006720 could be closed at the same time as a new
> > release, even though the code hasn't changed much.
> 
> Isn't that an 'unstable' release?

According to the upstream README file, these kinds of versions
correspond to release candidates. For instance:

  2.13.96 (2.14 RC6)

> Ideally we would have a 2.14 release. Although I just went to the
> git repo and saw 2.14 got released 6 days ago.

Great!

> So yeah, I'll prepare an update to that.

Thanks.

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