*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923
I strongly disagree!
The space was put in the URL by the original corefonts SourceForge
project way back in 2002, and has been there since then!
The space was there when apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1 successfully handled
the redirects on 2016-09-26 and on 2016-11-04.
Now apt 1.2.15ubuntu0.2 fails the handle the space, and that is quite
simply called a regression.
Also, the failure that I report is more complex than mishandling space
encoding, see the bottom of comment #1 for the weirder part (various
HTTP failures depending on.. the presence of the target file on disk).
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655431
Title:
apt-helper / update-notifier / ttf-mscorefonts-installer download
failure (regression)
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
* OS release: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
* Package version: 3.168.3
For the past few days (maybe even weeks for other users), update-
notifier has been very repeatedly failing to handle the downloads for
ttf-mscorefonts-installer. Previously it was working fine on the same
system.
This seems to affect a lot of desktop users, but the issue is usually
misdiagnosed on forums because it is attributed to ttf-mscorefonts-
installer and not to update-notifier-common.
The issue is made particularly irritating because the update-notifier
cron job tries and fails and notifies users daily of this failure.
The issue can be reproduced by having ttf-mscorefonts-installer
installed, and running:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure update-notifier-common
The error messages seem to be random but actually appear to be
consistent for a given download source:
* freefr.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found
* kent.dl.sourceforge.net: Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in
libcurl
* netassist.dl.sourceforge.net: The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range
header Bad header data [IP: 62.205.134.42 80]
* netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net: The HTTP server sent an invalid
Content-Range header
* netix.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found
* vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found
In all above cases, the reported failing URL can be downloaded just
fine using wget.
Some other mirrors appear to work (unfortunately, mirror names are
only printed in case of errors). However, since ttf-mscorefonts-
installer triggers 11 downloads in a row, chances of randomly getting
11 working mirrors are very low.
I am tagging this as regression-update because the issue started
happening when upgrading from 3.168.2 to 3.168.3 last Friday. It is of
course entirely possible the root cause is in another package, but
this would also likely be a regression-update, since I am very careful
about system-wide changes on this machine.
The previous update from 3.168.1 to 3.168.2 on November 4th went just
fine. ttf-mscorefonts-installer has been installed (just fine) on
September 26th, and not upgraded since then.
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