Bug#46145: apt: apt relies on env vars to specify proxies

[Herbert Xu <herbertx@hume.cse.unsw.edu.au>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.12
Severity: normal

It seems that the only way to specify proxies is through environment variables.
This violates our policy (or at least its rationale) where environment variables
should be the only way of specifying configuration information for the simple
fact there is no easy way of setting it for all users.

So please come up with an alternative way of setting proxies, perhaps through
a new configuration file or an existing one.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux hume 2.2.12 #3 Wed Sep 15 09:34:14 EST 1999 sparc unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-13       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10   2.95.1-0pre1   The GNU stdc++ library