The bug of which this one was previously marked a duplicate (I unmarked
it) was fixed months ago, and yet I'm still getting this email from
cron.daily every single day:
>/etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
>ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
The problem at this point seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with
spaces in URLs or anything like that. Rather, the problem is that when
the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer is installed non-interactively,
the license is not accepted, and the downloader for the package silently
fails to download any fonts if the license hasn't been accepted.
Note this stanza at the end of /usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-
mscorefonts-installer:
>Script: /usr/lib/msttcorefonts/update-ms-fonts
>Should-Download: msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula
On my system, msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula is false, because
the package was installed non-interactively.
The code which silently refuses to download fonts if that setting is
false is in /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader:
> if 'Should-Download' in para:
> db = debconf.DebconfCommunicator('update-notifier')
> try:
> should = db.get(para['Should-Download'])
> if should == "false":
> # Do nothing with this file.
>
> break
> except:
> pass
> finally:
> db.shutdown()
Furthermore, maybe I'm missing something, but I can't find any supported
way of accepting this license once the package has been installed,
because the code that prompts the user to accept the license is in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.preinst, and as far as I
can tell, dpkg-reconfigure doesn't rerun preinst files.
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1651923
apt https method decodes redirect locations and sends them to the
destination undecoded.
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