[Bug 1563259] [NEW] Default font isn't being loaded from correct directory

[Matthias Grundmann]

Public bug reported:

On a new Ubuntu 15.10 installation Thunderbird doesn't display parts of
html mails written in italic.

The reason is that the italic typeface for the default font 'sans-serif'
which is 'DejaVu Sans' is not being loaded from
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/ but instead searched in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/. To load the font in Thunderbird
one needs to install the ttf-dejavu-extra package which creates the
directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/ containing links to the
font files in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/.

To solve this the paths in Thunderbird should be updated. Otherwise the
package ttf-dejavu-extra could be added as a dependency.

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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