Bug#1020968: fc-cache: libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Transform

[bobi1024]

Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.13.1-4.5
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: bobi1024 at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

The last debian upgrade of libharfbuzz* from version 2.7.4-1+b1 to version 5.2.0-2 led to
the following error to be generated in the /var/log/fontconfig.log which problem affected
the fontconfig work and rendered some of the applications using fontconfig unusable.

fc-cache: symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Transform

Personally I've resolved the issue by manually downgrading the libharfbuzz* version back to 2.7.4-1+b1


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_USER, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages fontconfig depends on:
ii  fontconfig-config  2.13.1-4.5
ii  libc6              2.35-1
ii  libfontconfig1     2.13.1-4.5
ii  libfreetype6       2.12.1+dfsg-3

fontconfig recommends no packages.

fontconfig suggests no packages.

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