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

[Jeremy Bicha]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

I'm marking this a duplicate of bug 1651923 which is the underlying apt
issue. The good news is that a fix is being worked on for Ubuntu 16.04
and 16.10.

As for the update request, I've opened bug 1656102 for that so those
interested in the update can subscribe to that bug instead. From what I
can tell, updating this package to 3.6 is not needed to fix this bug.
Debian's package worked because Debian's package is different. That
difference is part of why Ubuntu's packages hasn't been updated recently
because that difference is complicated.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1651923
   apt https method decodes redirect locations and sends them to the destination undecoded.

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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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