I see the bug is addressed, but for what it's worth, one more data point.
I just run into the issue today when doing
apt remove fonts-ubuntu*
What I didn't notice was that a replacement instead of a removal was carried out
fonts-ubuntu (0.83-6ubuntu1 => 0.869-0ubuntu1)
After a while I turned back to Firefox — which I had set up to use Ubuntu font as default — and it had corrupted font.
That was not during installation, it was my normal several months old Mantic environment. Restarting Firefox solved the problem. I can reproduce it with
I see the bug is addressed, but for what it's worth, one more data point.
I just run into the issue today when doing
apt remove fonts-ubuntu*
What I didn't notice was that a replacement instead of a removal was carried out
fonts-ubuntu (0.83-6ubuntu1 => 0.869-0ubuntu1)
After a while I turned back to Firefox — which I had set up to use Ubuntu font as default — and it had corrupted font.
That was not during installation, it was my normal several months old Mantic environment. Restarting Firefox solved the problem. I can reproduce it with
apt install fonts-ubuntu fonts-ubuntu- classic-