[Bug 1656776] Re: should depend on apt-transport-https (was: fails to download andale32.exe, spams my cron every night)

[Nathanaël Naeri]

You're right indeed, your issue is likely different from bug 1607535,
but once you install apt-transport-https you should run into bug
1607535.

That package is normally installed as a Recommends of ubuntu-standard:
did you install your system without Recommends?

Going through the comments of bug 1651923's duplicates (a lot of them
are wrongly marked IMHO), it appears downloads.sourceforge.net was
already redirecting to HTTPS urls on 2016-11-24 (if not before, but I
couldn't find evidence of it). You're having that issue since 2017-01-12
only: was it when you first tried installing this package?

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Title:
  should depend on apt-transport-https (was: fails to download
  andale32.exe, spams my cron every night)

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Every night since January 12 2017 I'm getting an error like this from
  cron:

      From: Cron Daemon <root at xenial64.lan>
      To: root at xenial64.lan
      Subject: Cron <root at xenial64> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
      Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 04:25:33 +0000 (UTC)

      /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
      W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user
      '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
      E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
      E: Download Failed
      ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
      ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jan 16 10:01:49 2017
  JournalErrors:
   Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
         Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
         turn off this notice.
   No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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