https://launchpadlibrarian.net/251449771/upstream_git-log.txt has a lot
of changes which seem desirable, and not actually much in terms of new
features (aside from documentation updates). However, the sheer
number/size of the changes makes this risky, particularly as testing
this is extremely difficult (e. g. how reliably can we test
Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu in Bengali, Thai, various CJK, or e. g. Georgian
and are confident that fonts look right?).

I don't know much about fontconfig, but is there any better/simpler way
of mass-testing with our fonts than visual inspection? I. e. can we
compare which glyphs are being used from which font (for our default
font selection) with the current and the new version, to ensure that we
don't suddenly swap fonts around, or if that happens, that this is
expected? Is there some way to iterate over the unicode glyphs for fonts
that we have available, to ensure that the new fontconfig does not crash
on those? Any other ideas for a test plan?

Does this need any other dependencies (freetype etc.)? I. e. if 2.11.94
causes trouble, how easily can we go back to 2.11.1?

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  [FFe] Demilight (OS/2 weight=350) confuses fontconfig

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