[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Mikko Pesari]

Since November 14th, 2016 the installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) has
consistently failed on new Xenial installations. Before that date it
used to work just fine. Debian version (3.6) works very well on Xenial
and it's distributed to all our machines.

Meanwhile everything works OK on new Trusty installations...

I can see different error messages when running "apt install --reinstall
ttf-mscorefonts-installer" in a loop:

Hash Sum mismatch
The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header
404  Not Found

This seems to be an issue in how update-notifier approach downloads the
fonts (due to server-side changes?) Maybe it is something similar to Bug
#977812. Is there a way to make update-notifier/downloader dump all sent
and received headers?

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts
  and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  As noted in
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1371783/comments/45,
  the current 3.4 version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer searches for the
  font files in an incorrect network location. The consequence of this
  is that the core fonts are never installed.

  The Debian (upstream) version 3.6 of ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  searches for the font files in the correct network location, and will
  successfully install the core fonts.

  This problem occurs with Ubuntu 16.04 as of July 2016. (And with
  earlier versions, including current LTS.)

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