Yes, *please* backport this to 12.04.

By the way there was a workaround that allowed proxy authentication to
work with https in the old version, but unfortunately this will break
once the fix ships (not surprising, since it shamelessly abuses the
overly permissive URI parser in apt):

Acquire::http::proxy "http://username:password@hostname:port";;
Acquire::https::proxy 
"http://username:password@username:password@hostname:port";;

(In other words, duplicating the username:password@ part for the https
proxy only.)

Again, I recommend against using this, since your apt config will stop
working once this fix is backported.

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