[Bug 670629] Re: EULA not shown for Microsoft Fonts

[Jonathan Reed]

We encountered the same thing Bruno saw in comment #14.  It was consistently reproducible on Natty when leaving tasksel blank (that is, only installing "standard"), but running a postinstall script that, among other things, pulls in fontconfig and ttf-msttcorefonts-installer in the same aptitude transaction (a metapackage which depends on both of those and a ton of other things.   The problem is actually a poor interaction between those two packages.  Two of my colleagues tracked it down:
1) Both packages are unpacked.  Since it's part of ttf-mscorefonts-installer, /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts is created and exists.
2) fontconfig is configured first.  fontconfig's postinst "helpfully" "cleans up" empty all subdirectories under /usr/share/fonts when it's upgrading from pre-2.4.0-1 (and since "" sorts earlier, it's triggered on a fresh install)
3) ttf-msttcorefonts-installer is now configured, and attempts to write the README to a nonexistent directory.

Arguably, fontconfig's conditional is wrong and should use "lt-nl",
however msttcorefonts could also fix this by "mkdir -p" before writing
the README file.  Bugs will be filed for these issues, but I wanted to
leave this comment here in case anyone encounters this in a Google
search and wants to know what the hell is going on.

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Title:
  EULA not shown for Microsoft Fonts

Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “msttcorefonts” source package in Lucid:
  Fix Released
Status in “msttcorefonts” source package in Maverick:
  Fix Released
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubuntu-restricted-extras

  When installing Ubuntu-Restricted-Extras, the user never has a chance
  to see the EULA that comes with the Microsoft Fonts. Can this be fixed
  in the package?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: ubuntu-restricted-extras 42
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Nov  3 14:03:26 2010
  Dependencies: ubuntu-restricted-addons 4
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-restricted-extras

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