"A correct fix will have to wait until the end of the year" - do you really mean the end of 2017? But even if you can only release a workaround for now, please backport to 16.04 LTS as well, where it broke e.g. the ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
"A correct fix will have to wait until the end of the year" - do you really mean the end of 2017? -installer.
But even if you can only release a workaround for now, please backport to 16.04 LTS as well, where it broke e.g. the ttf-mscorefonts