Description of problem: With freetype-2.6.5, some freetype-internal functions, which were publicly accessible before were made inaccessible, e.g. FT_New_GlyphSlot, FT_Done_GlyphSlot Due to the fact the SONAME was not changed and no mass-rebuild performed for fc25, this change at least broke Inventor (Inventor uses FT_Done_GlyphSlot). I haven't tried to check and therefore don't know if this affects more packages. fc25 ships an fc24-built Inventor which now contains a reference to an unresolvable symbol which used to be provided by freetype. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): freetype-2.6.5 Additional info: - Inventor clearly is at fault to use private functions from freetype, but it had been this way for more than ca. 15 years. - IMHO, it's arguable whether freetype's SONAME should have been changed. libfreetype.so.6.12.3 and libfreetype.so.6.12.5 definitely are ABI incompatible. - It's not clear to me, why freetype made FT_Done_GlyphSlot inaccessible, but left other similar functions public. - ATM, I do not see an alternative but to "steal" FT_Done_GlyphSlot code from freetype and to incorporate it into Inventor, to work-around Inventor's problem on fedora >= 25.
It was this commit which turned off export of the functions: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/ChangeLog?id=771d3c8ae25d5042a3f6b76a329ad3dd782eca66 I've grepped through all the ~800 packages we have in Fedora 25 which depends on libfreetype.so* and I've found that only the Inventor calls an internal function of freetype (the FT_Done_GlyphSlot()). I'm proposing to not bump the SONAME because of this and close this bug as wontfix, do you agree?