Bug#1143297: debian-policy: FTBFS: Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories

control: tag -1 + help confirmed

Santiago Vila [01/Aug 10:35pm GMT] wrote:
> Running 'xelatex   -recorder  "policy.tex"'
> ------------
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999998 (TeX Live 2026/Debian) (preloaded format=xelatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./policy.tex
> LaTeX2e <2026-06-01>
> L3 programming layer <2026-06-18>
> (./sphinxmanual.cls
> Document Class: sphinxmanual 2019/12/01 v2.3.0 Document class (Sphinx manual)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/report.cls
> Document Class: report 2025/01/22 v1.4n Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
> Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories
> 	/var/cache/fontconfig
> 	/sbuild-nonexistent/.cache/fontconfig
> 	/sbuild-nonexistent/.fontconfig
> )))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/cmap.sty

I have no idea what the cause of this might be.  I do see #1064068 which
is possibly related.  I'm CCing the tex and fontconfig maintainers who
might have an idea.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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