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

[Nathanaël Naeri]

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

Removing the "...and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian" part
of the bug title to reflect that the fix isn't in version 3.6 per se
(but in package apt, as explained in bug 1651923). Version 3.6 only
works around this bug by using wget instead of apt-helper to download
the fonts, it doesn't fix it. And should Ubuntu's package be merged with
Debian's, the bug would stay because usage of apt-helper would be kept
in the Ubuntu package.

That said a merge would still be nice, for reasons exposed in bug
1656102 and duplicates.

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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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