Bug#58466: apt: Have apt work with the socksification libs

[Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.18
Severity: wishlist

> On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:

> > As I said, I am behind a firewall and must use a proxy server. I can
> > reach the desired ftp site with a browser or with the socks lib: 

> APT does not support socks, and the socksification libs do not work on it.
> You must use a non-socks server.

> Jason

Therefor I wish that it was not like that.

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.2.14 #1 Mon Jan 17 00:58:37 EST 2000 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.1.3-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10  2.95.2-5       The GNU stdc++ library