[Popcon-developers] Bug#365681: Bug#365681: Bug#365681: Bug#365681: popcon: using http_proxy

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Bill Allombert]
> Why ? /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest is also a conffile.

To avoid questions during upgrade.  We as the package maintainers are
unlikely to edit /etc/popularity-contest.conf as part of the package
(as it isn't a conffile, but might end up modifying
/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest, and if the sysadmin edits
/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest it will give him more work during
upgrades than editing /etc/popularity-contest.conf.

> On the other hand do you know systems that use http_proxy ? How they
> do that.

I believe it is normally set using /etc/environment for systems were
it should be set globally.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen