[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Jeremy Bicha]

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

cbcymru, the problem with installing packages from outside the Ubuntu
repositories is that you might not receive bugfix or security updates
for those packages. Why? Because you installed 3.6 and the next Ubuntu
bugfix update for this package (if there is one) will be numbered
something like 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2.1. Since that's a lower number than 3.6,
apt will not update your package to that version.

Also, in this case, the Debian package is substantially different so
it's not as integrated into Ubuntu's environment. I'm not familiar
enough with this package to tell you what those differences are.

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

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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