If it helps, I fairly recently did a fresh install of 19.04 on a new computer and having forgotten about this bug I blithely did
apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
and it seemed to work. No errors during install. All relevant fonts offered within LibreOffice Writer and display correctly. No workarounds needed.
Maybe I got lucky or maybe it is fixed.
If it helps, I fairly recently did a fresh install of 19.04 on a new computer and having forgotten about this bug I blithely did
apt install ttf-mscorefonts -installer
and it seemed to work. No errors during install. All relevant fonts offered within LibreOffice Writer and display correctly. No workarounds needed.
Maybe I got lucky or maybe it is fixed.