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

[Julie Brandon]

Unfortunately the sourceforge links this relies on are now EXCEPTIONALLY
unreliable and have been for the last few weeks - for me and I'm sure
most everyone else most download attempts fail considerably more often
than they succeed now (and this is on a well behaved, rock solid, fibre
connection.)

Given that 10 or so successful downloads are required for this installer
to complete, and most times individual downloads fail, and any
individual download failing causes the process to fail, successful
installation is now essentially impossible for me and many others - mine
and others' systems have been stuck on the repeated "Failure to download
extra files" dialogs for a while now.

:(

Given that it makes this package currently uninstallable and the
considerable heat this is receiving, I'm struggling to see how this can
be regarded as only medium priority now.

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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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