Re: Documentation and debug output for Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:56:07PM +0100, Tim Small wrote:
> I was debugging a problem with proxy auto detection (which I noticed had
> stopped working on my box in sid). I noticed that APT now seems to parse
> the stderr output from the Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect command which
> I use (ironically it outputs on stderr for debugging purposes), and this
> had broken my setup.
>
> Working out what was happenning requried diving into the code, so I've
> also created a patch which expands the debugging output to hopefully make
> things clearer for others.
>
> I've created a couple of patches (to follow) which (I hope) make the
> documentation less ambiguous.
Thanks for that, but sorry, no. This is a regression introduced in
commit
8f858d560e3b7b475c623c4e242d1edce246025a
and *not* a feature. And that regression should be fixed.
Luckily for everyone, this has not been part of any distribution's
stable release yet (it started with 1.3~exp2), and there's still a
few days to fix this for the upcoming Ubuntu release in 1.3.1.
That said, we can surely extend the documentation on how to debug
issues for 1.4, but that's unfortunately not possible for 1.3, as
it breaks translations...
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