Annoying "processing..." mails

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,
I've installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer, which pulled in update-notifier. Although downloading ms core fonts should be a one-time-job, and although nothing happens after initial download, that damned update-notifier sends me a daily mail with

/etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: update-notifier-common 3.168.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Dec 2 09:54:16 2016
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

If you are receiving daily emails, this means the download is failing to be applied correctly; the daily email is secondary to this.

And it appears the mail is not including error output, which should be fixed in /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common so that there is useful debugging information when something goes wrong.

[Adrien Beau (adrienbeau)]

This bug is a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1641671