Fwiw, while looking into bug 973701, I discovered timowi's ppa seem to install the fonts like expected:
$ ls -la /usr/share/games/widelands/fonts/ total 1512 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-04-09 15:36 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2012-04-09 15:36 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 422472 2011-04-15 20:40 FreeSans.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1108164 2011-04-15 20:40 FreeSerif.ttf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-04-09 15:36 Widelands
Fwiw, while looking into bug 973701, I discovered timowi's ppa seem to install the fonts like expected:
$ ls -la /usr/share/ games/widelands /fonts/
total 1512
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-04-09 15:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2012-04-09 15:36 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 422472 2011-04-15 20:40 FreeSans.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1108164 2011-04-15 20:40 FreeSerif.ttf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-04-09 15:36 Widelands