Comment 14 for bug 670629

This bug fix broke this package, I have this host I install with a debconf frontend non-interactive:

Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (from .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.2ubuntu0.1_all.deb) ...
mscorefonts-eula license could not be presented
try 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' to select a frontend other than noninteractive

Good, I did not accept the license, then at postinst step:
in package postinst script, the following code is running:

FONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts
license=mscorefonts-eula
db_get msttcorefonts/accepted-$license
if [ "$RET" != "true" ]; then
    echo "user did not accept the $license license" >&2
    rm -f $FONTDIR/*.ttf
    cat > $FONTDIR/README <<EOF
License refused.
[snip]
EOF
    exit 0
else
    rm -f $FONTDIR/README
fi

But, on a clean installation, without any trace of ttf-mscorefonts-installer before, there is no folder /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts yet, it's created later in postinst script, if license is approved.
this cause cat to fail :

Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.2ubuntu0.1) ...
user did not accept the mscorefonts-eula license
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.postinst: 36: cannot create /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/README: Directory nonexistent
dpkg: error processing ttf-mscorefonts-installer (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

maybe with something like this:

if [ "$RET" != "true" ]; then
    if [ -d $FONTDIR ]; then
        rm -f $FONTDIR/*.ttf
        cat > $FONTDIR/README <<EOF

or the folder /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts should be in debian/dirs