Public bug reported:
While trying to do a do-release-update today on Ubuntu 16.04 I hit an
unusual snag ("No new releases found") which turned out to be caused by
out of date proxy settings in Synaptic -- an apt package management GUI
that was last relevant approximately 10 years ago in Ubuntu 9.04 .
Test case:
1. Have invalid proxy settings from 10 years ago in
"/root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf"
2. Run release update either through GUI or using "do-release-upgrade" in bash
3. Receive error "No new releases found"
I have confirmed that once I deleted "/root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf",
the distribution update shows up correctly.
I understand the consideration of this file was added to the release-
updater code trying to resolve a bug, but it is really unreasonable to
expect someone to be able to figure out this is to blame for a rejected
distribution update in 2020.
At the very least include some debugging information.
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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update-manager takes proxy settings from unreasonable places
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