Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.9-1 Severity: normal There seems to have been a recent regression in http proxy handling for 'aptitude changelog'. I had set in apt.conf:
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy:8081"; Acquire::http::Proxy::bugs.debian.org "DIRECT"; where http://proxy:8081 was an apt-cacher instance, which doesn't handle bugs or changelogs. apt-listbugs added the ability to handle the latter in order to fix bug 396304. And I'm pretty sure 'aptitude changelog' must have been using the value of the environment variable $http_proxy (which was set to the null string in my case), given that it was working up until very recently (can't check what version right now, alas...). But alas, now it seems it must be using the value of Acquire::http::Proxy, which for apt-cacher (or numerous other package cachers) users, is not the correct thing to do. If this is indeed a change of behaviour, could we get it using the $http_proxy environment variable again, and before lenny? -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.9 compiled at Aug 4 2008 01:26:18 Compiler: g++ 4.3.1 Compiled against: apt version 4.6.0 NCurses version 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.6.20080804 cwidget version: 0.5.12 Apt version: 4.6.0 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffce7fd000) /usr/lib/libtsocks.so (0x00007f6fc61ff000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0x00007f6fc5f3f000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f6fc5cf4000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f6fc5aef000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f6fc581c000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f6fc55a3000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f6fc5239000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f6fc5022000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f6fc4e06000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f6fc4afa000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f6fc4877000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f6fc4660000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f6fc430d000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f6fc4109000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f6fc3f06000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f6fc6408000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.14+b1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-1 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-8 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080804-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-2 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) ii tasksel 2.75 Tool for selecting tasks for insta -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]