[Bug 2051313] Re: font-config confilcts ubuntustudio-default-settings upgrading from 22.04 to 24.04

[Daniel Tang]

Thank you Mr. Eickmeyer for your fix in 23.04.

> notice how the askubuntu question was closed? That's because it was
offtopic/for an unsupported release

AskUbuntu closes questions as off-topic *because* they want those
questions to be *posted here* instead. It says "Bug reports and problems
specific to development version of Ubuntu should be reported on
Launchpad so that developers can see, track and fix these issues."

Anyway, this bug doesn't affect me, and I might as well treat the
Invalid as Fix Committed but not released.

> won't be supported until August 2024 (upon release of 24.04.1)

Interesting! You helped me learn something today after reading
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/upgrade-introduction . I never noticed
this as I personally upgrade to either latest or dev, never LTS
specifically. I will post a comment on AskUbuntu to relay this
information

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Title:
  font-config confilcts ubuntustudio-default-settings upgrading from
  22.04 to 24.04

Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntustudio-default-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This bug was migrated from https://askubuntu.com/q/1501240/1004020 .

  A nearly identical bug is
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/2005124 . It
  fixed things for `kubuntu-settings-desktop` but not `ubuntustudio-
  default-settings`. Please add an analogous fix.

  A similar but potentially unrelated bug is
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntustudio-default-
  settings/+bug/2037471 .

  1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or
  System -> About Ubuntu

  Not my computer.

  2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy
  pkgname' or by checking in Software Center

  Not my computer.

  3) What you expected to happen

  The AskUbuntu user's upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 to complete
  successfully.

  4) What happened instead

  The upgrade failed and they posted to AskUbuntu.

  # Copy of their question body

  After an upgrade to 
  ```
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:Ubuntu Noble Numbat (development branch)
  Release: 24.04
  Codename:noble 

  ```
  apt won't update bcs of unmet dependencies.

  ``` 
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libfontconfig1 : Depends: fontconfig-config (>= 2.14.2-6ubuntu1)
   libfontconfig1:i386 : Depends: fontconfig-config:i386 (>= 2.14.2-6ubuntu1)
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution). 
  ```
  I've tried: 

  ``` 
  apt --fix-broken install

  ```
  ```
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/fontconfig-config_2.14.2-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf', which is also in package ubuntustudio-default-settings 22.04.26.3
  dpkg-query: package 'fontconfig-config' is not installed
  Use dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list archive files contents.
  dpkg-query: package 'fontconfig-config' is not installed
  Use dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list archive files contents.
  dpkg-query: package 'fontconfig-config' is not installed
  Use dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list archive files contents.
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/fontconfig-config_2.14.2-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  ```

  # Copy of workaround in my answer body

  The problem is that 24.04 moved `/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-
  rgb.conf` out of `ubuntustudio-default-settings`
  ([before](https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/all/ubuntustudio-default-
  settings/filelist),
  [after](https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/all/ubuntustudio-default-
  settings/filelist)) and into [`fontconfig-
  config`](https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/all/fontconfig-
  config/filelist). The `ubuntustudio-default-settings` package needs to
  be updated first but the maintainers forgot to add an automatic
  `Conflicts:` line.

  You can retry installing the package in the correct order by running
  `sudo apt install --upgrade ubuntustudio-default-settings`. If that
  does not work, you need to forcibly reinstall things in the correct
  order:

  ```bash
  sudo -i

  apt update
  apt download ubuntustudio-default-settings
  apt download fontconfig-config

  # Temporarily force-uninstall only ubuntustudio-default-settings
  # so that we DON'T uninstall ubuntustudio-desktop
  dpkg --force-all -r ubuntustudio-default-settings
  dpkg --force-all -i ./fontconfig-config_*
  dpkg --force-all -i ./ubuntustudio-default-settings_*

  dpkg --configure -a
  apt --fix-broken install
  apt upgrade
  apt dist-upgrade
  ```

  # Analysis

  Please apply an analogous fix. Where I mentioned `Conflicts:` on
  AskUbuntu, a `Pre-Depends:` may be necessary instead as I read
  somewhere on Launchpad.

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