fontconfig warnings when run on systems with older system version of fontconfig

Alan Scott reports seeing the following warnings from ParaView 5.2.0 linux binaries:

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 84: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 84: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 93: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 93: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 102: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 102: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf", line 33: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not work as expected

The cause is a change in the format in the newer version of fontconfig that ships with ParaView. Configuration files on systems with an older fontconfig may have elements not supported by the new version of fontconfig, and it complains.