Ubuntu
update-notifier package

  1. Bug #1641671
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1641671

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Adrien Beau (adrienbeau) wrote : Re: "ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing..." email message repeatedly from /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common

The core issue is that ttf-mscorefonts-installer files are repeatedly failing to download, so you are repeatedly emailed about it. (The email sure could be improved.)

update-notifier handles the downloads, but the actual downloads are performed by apt-helper, and that program has trouble following redirects with spaces in the URL and handling files that already exist on the target machine.

Have a look at the following bug report about that: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1655431