Bug#54524: http_proxy and web clients.
Greg Stark writes:
>
> Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> writes:
>
> > You have a cost in being non-standard, and I don't think it is worth it
> > this time. What benefits would give us what you propose?
>
> The cost is greater than /etc/mailname or /etc/papersize ?
>
> Debian long ago decided not to worry about the issue of being different and
> just build the best distribution it can be. Of course being compatible is
> important, but if we just want to do everything the same as Red Hat then why
> bother?
On a slightly different tack, I'm not sure we want to dictate in
policy default behaviour for every single package - that is clearly
absurd; so in many cases we have to allow package maintainers to do
their job (make the package work optimally on Debian systems), without
hand-holding from policy. In this case, submitting bugs against any
web-using packages that ignore http_proxy should provide a
solution.
Matthew
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