Carl, after our discussion on IRC, I hope you'll forgive me for taking over this bug slightly.
I believe that this is a bug in squid-deb-proxy, which does not correctly handle either when Avahi isn't functioning or when there is no proxy advertising _apt-proxy._tcp. In both of those cases, apt-avahi- discover will print out "http://:/";, and apt will dutifully try to use that as its proxy. I don't see the debian-installer as being at fault here. You asked for the squid-deb-proxy-client to be installed, and its explicit purpose is to override any previously-configured proxy settings. ** Package changed: debian-installer (Ubuntu) => squid-deb-proxy (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/889656 Title: installer stops using proxy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid-deb-proxy/+bug/889656/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
