Bug#1006266: reportbug: does not work if Socks proxy is used in environment

[Nis Martensen <nis.martensen@mailbox.org>]

On 22.02.2022, Axel Stammler wrote:
> I use Tor Socks and these environment settings:
> 
> $ set | grep -i proxy
> ALL_PROXY=socks://127.0.0.1:9050/
> NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,::1,10.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16
> all_proxy=socks://127.0.0.1:9050/
> no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,::1,10.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16

Reportbug currently does not support using a SOCKS proxy, see #810933.


> Traceback (most recent call last):

Right, thanks for the report. "Not supporting" does not mean it may crash.


> If I put a line with “http_proxy” without arguments into ~/.reportbugrc, there is no
> change. If I add “all_proxy” without argounts, Report Bug cannot reach the Debian servers:

Please read the documentation on how reportbug's proxy support works.
https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/reportbug/reportbug.1.en.html#proxy=PROXY,
https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/reportbug/reportbug.1.en.html#http_proxy
https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/reportbug/reportbug.conf.5.en.html#http_proxy