Bug#744934: Please add SOCKS support in apt

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 1.0.1
Severity: wishlist

In some situations, it would be useful to be able to ask apt to use a
SOCKS5 proxy when fetching package lists and packages.  Please add
SOCKS5 proxy support in the http, https and ftp download methods.

The notation in apt.conf could be something like this:

  Acquire::http::Proxy "socks://127.0.0.1:9000/";
  Acquire::https::Proxy "socks://127.0.0.1:9000/";
  Acquire::ftp::Proxy "socks://127.0.0.1:9000/";

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen