Ubuntu
msttcorefonts package

  1. Bug #1607535
  2. Comment #63

Comment 63 for bug 1607535

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Robin (robingape) wrote : Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

Nathaniel, addressing the change made between comments #54 & #55. This bug is *not* relating to the functional failure of ttf-mscorefonts-installer, but rather to the failure of Ubuntu to *update to version 3.6*. This package comes originally from Debian, where the current version is 3.6. That version seems to work without problem, no matter how ugly it may be in doing so. An update to the existing 3.6 code would provide a clean solution to the problem which, as you will have noticed, affects a very large number of people.

Unless someone is going actively to develop and test an updated package which resolves the problems with version 3.4, then the change proposed negates the point of this bug report, which is to adopt the Debian solution. The solution in Debian mainstream (version 3.6) is already tested and working. What is missing is for Ubuntu to adopt version 3.6.

(As a point of information, this bug also appears with 14.04.)