The symptoms described are due to changes made for bug 432631. Perhaps
this should be marked as a duplicate (though it's kind of an anti-
duplicate!)
The documentation of this change is in
/usr/share/doc/sudo/changelog.Debian.gz:
sudo (1.7.2p1-1ubuntu4) lucid; urgency=low
* env.c: Revert addition of "http_proxy" again. This was an Ubuntu specific
EBW hack, caused inconsistencies with other proxy variables (such as
https_proxy and ftp_proxy), made sudo incompatible to upstream
behaviour/documentation. This is solved in a much better way in apt itself
and gnome-network-properties now. (LP: #432631)
[changes in intervening versions elided]
-- Martin Pitt <[email protected] (1.7.0-1ubuntu1) karmic;
urgency=low
[...]
- env.c: Add "http_proxy" to initial_keepenv_table, so that it is kept
for "sudo apt-get ...". (Ubuntu specific EBW hack, should disappear at
some point)
--
sudo does not keep http_proxy environment variable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556293
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