Bug#1028901: fontconfig: too lax dependency on libfontconfig1

Sven Joachim svenjoac at gmx.de
Sat Jan 14 16:09:16 GMT 2023


Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.14.1-3

The cache version has been bumped from 7 to 8 in fontconfig 2.14[1].  If
fontconfig is upgraded before libfontconfig1, fc-cache in the postinst
will still use cache version 7, and a subsequent upgrade of
libfontconfig1 renders the global cache in /var/cache/fontconfig useless
until fontconfig is reinstalled.

It seems to me that a stricter dependency of fontconfig on
libfontconfig1 seems to be desirable to avoid such a situation.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/Sid's
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.163-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages fontconfig depends on:
ii  fontconfig-config  2.14.1-3
ii  libc6              2.36-8
ii  libfontconfig1     2.14.1-3
ii  libfreetype6       2.12.1+dfsg-4

fontconfig recommends no packages.

fontconfig suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/5d84745e7209d4c612302652723f92addfbb3364



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