severity 512949 wishlist thanks On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:05:59 +0100 Thibaut VARENE <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: apt-cross > Version: 0.12.0 > Severity: normal > > apt-cross does properly use the proxy setting to retrieve package listings, It doesn't actually - it merely calls apt, so it is the proxy handling of apt that allows this to happen. > but when it comes to downloading actual packages, it tries to connect > directly, and thus fails miserably. Do you have an example of a perl program that works correctly with your current proxy? I have no way of testing proxy behaviour and I appear to have no perl scripts installed on my own system that use proxies. At first check, fixing this bug would require adding a new dependency whether a proxy is in use or not, which is something I really do not want to do. Patches are welcome, of course, but I think this issue will have to be deferred until apt-cross becomes part of apt itself (at which point the apt handling will take over and the bug goes away). Currently, I don't consider it practical for apt-cross to start dealing with the issue of proxies so late in the life cycle of the codebase - I'm expecting to start the process of removing apt-cross quite soon after the Lenny release, possibly by porting it from perl to C++ in order to make it easier to fit it into apt before Squeeze. As the manpage states, apt-cross has a very limited future and there is very little merit in adding support for any functionality not already present in the codebase. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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