Last update: fontconfig 2.13, libfontconfig 2.11

[bll]

This last batch of updates really mucked up my fonts.

It appears that fontconfig-config and fontconfig were updated to 2.13,
but libfontconfig and libfontconfig-dev were still at 2.11.
I updated libfontconfig* via synaptic and all is fine again.

[bll]

Booting to my alternate partition, the upgrade notice below lists fontconfig and fontconfig-config,
but no libfontconfig.

bll-tecra:bll$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
gimp gimp-data libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm2 libegl1-mesa libfontconfig1
libfontconfig1-dev libgbm1 libgimp2.0 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-dev
libwayland-egl1-mesa libxatracker2
The following packages will be upgraded:
firefox firmware-amd-graphics firmware-atheros firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x
firmware-brcm80211 firmware-intel-sound firmware-intelwimax firmware-ipw2x00
firmware-iwlwifi firmware-libertas firmware-linux-nonfree
firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-myricom firmware-netxen firmware-qlogic
firmware-realtek fontconfig fontconfig-config gazelle-installer-data-mx
libbabl-0.1-0 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfreetype6
libfreetype6-dev libglib2.0-data libwayland-client0 libwayland-cursor0
libwayland-server0 libwebp6 libwebpdemux2 libxnvctrl0
linux-compiler-gcc-6-x86 linux-libc-dev mx-conky-data mx-docs mx-goodies
mx-packageinstaller-pkglist mx-tweak-data nvidia-detect unrar
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-radeon
47 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 142 MB of archives.
After this operation, 32.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
bll-tecra:bll$

[whiskerc]

bil, you're not the only one who noticed font changes after this upgrade.

My system has libfontconfig1 rather than libfontconfig (not sure about the difference). All were upgraded to 1:2.13-05~mx17+1
Fonts have changed subtly. All are sharp and clear, which is the most important thing. But quite a jarring morning!

Window Manager - Style - Title Font - Noto Sans 12
Appearance - Fonts - Noto Sans 12
Sublime Text editor using DejaVu Sans Mono 12

[Stevo]

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The following packages have been kept back:
gimp gimp-data libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm2 libegl1-mesa libfontconfig1
libfontconfig1-dev libgbm1 libgimp2.0 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-dev
libwayland-egl1-mesa libxatracker2

In our testing, these weren't held back for anyone, so we have to find out why that's the case for you.

Can you give us the output of "inxi -r" so we can see if your sources are OK?

[bll]

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bll-tecra:bll$ inxi -r
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
  1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list

[Stevo]

Well, I'm stumped! But at least you were able to fix it.

[bll]

No problem.
If I had noticed libfontconfig1 within the held back portion, I could have just done the dist-upgrade earlier.
I get held back stuff on occasion (not just linux kernels). I don't know if that's common or not.
I just assumed it was some upgrade process mx linux was doing.

[Stevo]

Are the iso.mxrepo.com repositories updating OK now for you with "sudo apt update"? They were broken a few days ago, so I switched to https://mirrors.xtom.com/mx-packages/mx/repo/, but probably will go with la.mxrepo.com.

[Gordon Cooper]

No problems for me, there is no Firefox on this machine - that may be irrelevant?