libXft2 should be updated

[bbarker]

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):

NAME="Pop!_OS"
VERSION="22.04 LTS"
ID=pop
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com"
SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os

Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy $PACKAGE NAME):

$ apt policy libxft2
libxft2:
  Installed: 2.3.4-1
  Candidate: 2.3.4-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.3.4-1 500
        500 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Issue/Bug Description:

There seems to be an issue in the current libXft included in Pop, though I believe the upstream Ubuntu version fixes this issue. Could you look into bumping the version?

Sources:

sminez/penrose#313 (my issue)

Comment indicating libXft 2.3.5+ should resolve the issue:
LukeSmithxyz/st#130 (comment)

Steps to reproduce (if you know):

See reference links above

Expected behavior:

See reference links above

Other Notes:

[mmstick]

The package is provided by Ubuntu

[bbarker]

I tried submitting a bug report using ubuntu-bug libxft2 but eventually met with this error:

*** Problem in libxft2

The problem cannot be reported:

This does not seem to be an official Pop!_OS package. Please retry after updating the indexes of available packages, if that does not work then remove related third party packages and try again.

Is there a preference on how to submit this bug upstream?

Looks like the updated package is in 24.04 but not in 22.04.

[mmstick]

You would have to manually create a bug report on Launchpad.