Bug#1030000: fontconfig: after upgrade from 2.13.1-4.5 to 2.14.1-3 subpixel is enabled

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.14.1-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.3
X-Debbugs-Cc: tg at mirbsd.de

> * local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade, and

After an upgrade, etckeeper reports that
/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
shows up again, despite the local admin
choice to not have blurry fonts.

Running dpkg-reconfigure -plow fontconfig-config
shows that the debconf database correctly remembers
the admin-provided setting (subpixel disabled was
pre-selected), and just pressing Enter on every
question makes it remove that file, so I believe
that some maintainer script errorneously forcibly
creates that file overriding local configuration.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-20-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

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