[Reportbug-maint] Bug#708516: reportbug: Reportbug seems to not use proxy, despite proxy & http_proxy settings.

[Michael Deegan]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.4.4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Despite my best efforts, I am unable to persuade reportbug to use a proxy.

On a machine with no direct internet access:

    michael at hugin:~$ http_proxy=http://proxy:3128/ reportbug reportbug
    *** Welcome to reportbug.  Use ? for help at prompts. ***
    Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter).
    Detected character set: ISO-8859-1
    Please change your locale if this is incorrect.

    Using 'Michael Deegan <bugs at wibble.darktech.org>' as your from address.
    Getting status for reportbug...
    Checking for newer versions at madison...
    Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
    Querying Debian BTS for reports on reportbug (source)...
    Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]?

There was a long pause while attempting to query the BTS (but not while
consulting madison, go figure). In another terminal:

    michael at hugin:~$ netstat --tcp -p|grep python
    (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
     will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
    tcp        0      1 hugin.murdoch.pri:34217 beach.debian.org:http   SYN_SENT    22261/python

Another example, from a machine that does have direct internet access:

    michael at wibble:~$ http_proxy=http://someinvalidhostname:3129/ reportbug --proxy=http://123.234.345.456:3130/ reportbug
    /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
      warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
    Detected character set: UTF-8
    Please change your locale if this is incorrect.

    Using 'Michael Deegan <bugs at wibble.darktech.org>' as your from address.
    Getting status for reportbug...
    Verifying package integrity...
    Checking for newer versions at madison...
    Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
    Querying Debian BTS for reports on reportbug (source)...
    184 bug reports found:

    Bugs with severity important
        1) #532150  reportbug: [regression] no longer supports custom mua commands
        2) #564112  Checking status of source packages with many binaries can be slow
        3) #612712  reportbug complains about unicode conversion error
        4) #620225  GTK+ UI errors: segfaults, floating-point exceptions, pango error  [RESOLVED]
        5) #625534  GTK+ UI errors: segfaults, floating-point exceptions, pango error  [RESOLVED]
        [snip a bajillion bugs]

Obviously I am working under the assumption that if reportbug was paying
attention to either $http_proxy or --proxy, then it would actually notice
(and therefore complain) if the values supplied weren't usable. :P

-- Package-specific info:
** /home/michael/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.2"
mode standard
realname "Michael Deegan"
email "bugs at wibble.darktech.org"
no-cc
mutt

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (470, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.7
ii  python            2.7.3-4
ii  python-reportbug  6.4.4

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
ii  debconf-utils                              1.5.46
ii  debsums                                    2.0.52
ii  dlocate                                    1.02
pn  emacs22-bin-common | emacs23-bin-common    <none>
ii  exim4                                      4.80-6
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.80-6
ii  file                                       5.11-2
ii  gnupg                                      1.4.12-6
ii  python-gtk2                                2.24.0-3
pn  python-gtkspell                            <none>
pn  python-urwid                               <none>
ii  python-vte                                 1:0.28.2-5
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.7
ii  python            2.7.3-4
ii  python-debian     0.1.21
ii  python-debianbts  1.11
ii  python-support    1.0.15

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- debconf-show failed

-MD

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