Ok. Sorry about this; the reasoning here had been that:
- the desktop network configuration interface syncs the apt proxy settings
with the general <proto>_proxy env variables, so in the common case these are
the same
- the flashplugin-installer package has already been looking at the apt proxy
settings rather than the http_proxy variable for some time, and nobody seems to
have complained
- sudo is known not to pass http_proxy settings in the environment (for good
reason), so users who *do* need a proxy for all http downloads are advised to
configure this via the apt proxy settings so that it's applied consistently.
However, this is the second report I've seen of the new proxy behavior
being a problem (though I've mislaid the first report), which tells me
this is not a winning solution. I'll fix this ASAP to use $http_proxy
instead, which seems to be the lesser evil - given that users can always
manually set http_proxy if needed, but have no way to selectively un-set
the apt proxy for non-apt downloads.
** Package changed: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu) => update-notifier (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Triaged
** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04
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ttf-mscorefonts-installer installation popup and probable failure
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