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

[Robin]

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

Nathaniel, addressing the change made between comments #54 & #55. This
bug is *not* relating to the functional failure of ttf-mscorefonts-
installer, but rather to the failure of Ubuntu to *update to version
3.6*. This package comes originally from Debian, where the current
version is 3.6. That version seems to work without problem, no matter
how ugly it may be in doing so. An update to the existing 3.6 code would
provide a clean solution to the problem which, as you will have noticed,
affects a very large number of people.

Unless someone is going actively to develop and test an updated package
which resolves the problems with version 3.4, then the change proposed
negates the point of this bug report, which is to adopt the Debian
solution. The solution in Debian mainstream (version 3.6) is already
tested and working. What is missing is for Ubuntu to adopt version 3.6.

(As a point of information, this bug also appears with 14.04.)

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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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