package downloader doesn't follow redirects

Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04
ubuntu@ubuntu-sin:/var/log/apt$ apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer
ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
  Installato: 3.4ubuntu3
  Candidato: 3.4ubuntu3
  Tabella versione:
 *** 3.4ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/multiverse i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Here the /var/log/apt/term.log part with error i get... seems a temporary error: i report, it may help developers

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe^M
Traceback (most recent call last):^M
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 233, in process_download_requests^M
    dest_file = urllib.urlretrieve(files[i])[0]^M
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 93, in urlretrieve^M
    return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)^M
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 239, in retrieve^M
    fp = self.open(url, data)^M
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 207, in open^M
    return getattr(self, name)(url)^M
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 358, in open_http^M
    return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)^M
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 375, in http_error^M
    return self.http_error_default(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)^M
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 380, in http_error_default^M
    raise IOError, ('http error', errcode, errmsg, headers)^M
IOError: ('http error', 307, 'Temporary Redirect', <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0xb73b18cc>)^M
Setting up update-notifier (0.119ubuntu5) ...^M

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 10 09:37:40 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)