Bug#51314: apt: ftp via http proxy configured in apt.conf does not work

[serge@SG3816.spb.edu]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.14
Severity: normal

Hello!

In my /etc/apt/apt.conf I have:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";;
Acquire::http::No-Cache "true";
Acquire::ftp::Proxy  "http://127.0.0.1:3128";;

When apt tries to use ftp I get something like this 

Err ftp://ftp.uni-marburg.de potato/kde libqt1g 1:1.44-6.5
  Protocol corruption

If I use 

$ export ftp_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:3128";

then everything is OK.


-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux galileo 2.2.13 #1 Sat Nov 13 05:28:50 MSK 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
hi  libc6           2.1.2-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
hi  libstdc++2.10   2.95.2-3       The GNU stdc++ library

Thank you in advance,

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Serge