[Bug 1371783] Re: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (utopic) fails to install/upgrade

[James_pic]

Looks like the failure is because some of the Sourceforge mirrors are
flaky, and when a mirror flakes out, SourceForge redirects clients to a
HTML page with Javascript that makes it try again - which is of course
no good for headless downloads.

I stuck a copy of the files onto GitHub pages, and threw together a PPA
with a modified version of the package, that downloads from GitHub
instead (https://code.launchpad.net/~james-
pic/+archive/ubuntu/msttcorefonts). Can we come up with a long term
solution that gets around the Sourceforce dependency?

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Title:
  package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (utopic) fails to
  install/upgrade

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I've been trying to upgrade/update 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' for the
  past week, but the install/upgrade fails with  a 'andale32.exe Hash
  Sum mismatch" error:

  <SNIP>

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Fetched 552 B in 11s (47 B/s)

  E: Failed to fetch
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe  Hash Sum
  mismatch

  E: Download Failed
  Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...

  <SNIP>

  'lsb_release -rd':
  Description:	Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)
  Release:	14.10

  apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
    Installed: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
    Candidate: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 0
          500 http://mirror.hmc.edu/ubuntu/ utopic/multiverse i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  I expect it to complete the install/upgrade, but it constantly chokes
  on 'andale32.exe', and generates a notification after each boot.

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