After upgrading freetype to latest 2.10.2 version, wine applications either don't start or start partially (my wine version is Eric's wine-5.6 package).

Trying to run a wine app from terminal gave the message that freetype couldn't be found.
Downgraded to freetype-2.10.1 and all is well...

The sole difference between the old and new version seems to be that /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.17.1 is replaced with libfreetype.so.6.17.2.

Any clue to why wine can't handle that change?

Oh, and yes - I run -current multilib, and I did create a freetype compat32 version and upgraded that, too...

Working just fine here, but, then, I just run a simple ms-windows application from 1994, "The American Heritage Electronic Dictionary". All the fonts look as they should.

I only run four applications on wine:
Harzing's Publish or Perish - works with the latest freetype upgrade but leaves a residual "blob" on the desktop after closing.
A simple ms-application (church records database) - starts, but with broken search engine
Softmaker's FlexiPDF - won't start.
Adobe ADE - won't start.

Update - tried the following:

Reinstalling wine - no change
creating a fresh prefix - no change (I get the "Wine cannot find the FreeType font library" message)
tried a dirty trick creating a symlink /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.17.1 pointing at 6.17.2 (with symlinks libfreetype.so and so.6 pointing at the new symlink) - no change

To me it seems as there's something in the new libfreetype library that causes this.

Solved.
I remembered that I had one other 32 bit program installed, namely acrobat reader. Trying to start that with the latest freetype gave me the error message
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This is a consequence of the latest freetype having support for woff 2:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa....10.2-Released

Created/installed a brotli-1.0.7 compat32 package, acrobta reader and all my wine apps run again