Comment 1 for bug 979477

Does /var/log/apt/term.log offer any more explanation for why the download has failed here? Is there an apt proxy setting on the affected systems pointed to a proxy that doesn't allow arbitrary file downloads? (Where previously msttcorefonts looked for an $http_proxy env variable, it now uses the apt proxy settings, bringing it in line with flashplugin-installer behavior.)

Previously, msttcorefonts also used a list of fallback download hosts; now it assumes that http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/ will always work, and that if not it's an issue that the user can/should fix up by hand. Is there a problem using this particular download URL, vs. one of the mirrors?