[Bug 1713615] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails because Redirection from https to http is forbidden

[Michael Mess]

Just upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 a few days ago.

The Problem still exists.
Why this is still not fixed by the Ubuntu package manager as there seems a good version available?

Fixing this locally and marking on hold is probably not a good idea as
then further upgrades (maybe security relevant) won't take place for
that package.

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails because Redirection from https to http
  is forbidden

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-restricted-extras package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This started soon after upgrading to Artful.
  The logs below show the failure is not always in the same file.

  
  Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu1_all.deb ...
  mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
  Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu1) over (3.6ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.184) ...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
  Fetched 198 kB in 10s (19.6 kB/s)                                              

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [554 kB]
  Fetched 554 kB in 8s (66.4 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe [168 kB]
  Fetched 168 kB in 5s (31.0 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe [246 kB]
  Fetched 246 kB in 6s (40.1 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/courie32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/courie32.exe [646 kB]
  Fetched 646 kB in 12s (51.9 kB/s)                                              

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/georgi32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/georgi32.exe [392 kB]
  Fetched 392 kB in 9s (40.5 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/impact32.exe
  Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/impact32.exe
    Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Failed to fetch https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/impact32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Download Failed

  ...

  Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu1_all.deb ...
  mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
  Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu1) over (3.6ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.184) ...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
  Fetched 198 kB in 5s (36.6 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
    Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Failed to fetch https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Download Failed

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5
  Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
  Date: Tue Aug 29 07:11:50 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-04-28 (2679 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-28 (0 days ago)

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