ftbfs: E: fontconfig: alien-tag fc-cache-used-in-maintainer-script

Bug #1993008 reported by themusicgod1
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fontconfig (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When trying to build from source using

debuild -us -uc -b

the result errors out with

Now running lintian fontconfig_2.13.1-4.4ubuntu1_amd64.changes ...
E: fontconfig: alien-tag fc-cache-used-in-maintainer-script [usr/share/lintian/overrides/fontconfig:1]
W: libfontconfig-doc: bad-whatis-entry [usr/share/man/man3/FcPatternIterNext.3.gz]

from:
https://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/project/debathena/lintian/www/tags/fc-cache-used-in-maintainer-script.html

"This script apparently runs fc-cache. Updating of the fontconfig cache files is now handled automatically by triggers, so running fc-cache from maintainer scripts is no longer necessary."

ubuntu: kinetic kudu

libfontconfig1-dev:
  Installed: 2.13.1-4.4ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.13.1-4.4ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.13.1-4.4ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ubuntu.hysing.is/ubuntu kinetic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: libfontconfig-dev 2.13.1-4.4ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 6.0.1-gnulibre x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Fri Oct 14 21:07:42 2022
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fontconfig
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-10-14 (0 days ago)

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themusicgod1 (themusicgod1) wrote :
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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

lintian errors do not count as a build failure. You could file this as a bug in Debian if you like -- we'll pick up the fix from there in due course.

Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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