Bug#1143379: refcard: FTBFS: Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories

Holger Wansing <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.rc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Santiago Vila <[email protected]> wrote (Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:38:04 +0000):
> Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories
> 	/var/cache/fontconfig
> 	/sbuild-nonexistent/.cache/fontconfig
> 	/sbuild-nonexistent/.fontconfig
> 
> Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories
> 	/var/cache/fontconfig
> 	/sbuild-nonexistent/.cache/fontconfig
> 	/sbuild-nonexistent/.fontconfig
> 
> Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories
> 	/var/cache/fontconfig
> 	/sbuild-nonexistent/.cache/fontconfig
> 	/sbuild-nonexistent/.fontconfig


Please note, that the Fontconfig issue is not the real problem; it's only
a warning. In
https://salsa.debian.org/holgerw/refcard-workaround-broken-support-for-french-in-texlive-2026-20260711-2
I have verified, that broken support for French in dblatex/texlive is the 
real problem (as already pointed out by Samuel...); when French is disabled, 
the package build works fine (despite the Fontconfig messages). 



Holger
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