You're right indeed, your issue is likely different from bug 1607535, but once you install apt-transport-https you should run into bug 1607535.
That package is normally installed as a Recommends of ubuntu-standard: did you install your system without Recommends? Going through the comments of bug 1651923's duplicates (a lot of them are wrongly marked IMHO), it appears downloads.sourceforge.net was already redirecting to HTTPS urls on 2016-11-24 (if not before, but I couldn't find evidence of it). You're having that issue since 2017-01-12 only: was it when you first tried installing this package? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656776 Title: should depend on apt-transport-https (was: fails to download andale32.exe, spams my cron every night) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1656776/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
