Comment 0 for bug 1310728

Daily builds of matplotlib are failing while running an example, due to a bug in freetype. This is already fixed upstream, but it appears that the fix is not yet in Ubuntu.

Upstream bug report:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40997

Upstream fix commit:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=freetype/freetype2.git;a=commit;h=5f577462bd7cc8e2ca6fe4a1efecee6d8a95e7be

Matplotlib bug report that identified this as a freetype issue:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2916

Daily builds (currently disabled because of this error):
https://code.launchpad.net/~takluyver/+recipe/matplotlib-daily