Michael,

the http_proxy preservation was added to sudo a couple of releases back,
as a hideous hack. Admittedly we should preserve all or none of those,
so the patch makes sense if we still need $http_proxy through sudo.
However, I'd much rather see this disappear entirely again than piling
up more and more of those.

Doesn't the installer allow you to configure an apt proxy system wide
nowadays? Could we just drop the $http_proxy hack from sudo, to fix this
in a much cleaner fashion? Right now, this patch makes our sudo
incompatible with Debian's, upstream's, and anyone else's.

Thanks!

** Summary changed:

- sudo fails to preserve no_proxy env var
+ sudo only preserves some, but not all proxy env vars

** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Wishlist => Medium

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sudo only preserves some, but not all proxy env vars
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432631
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