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  1. Bug #556293
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Comment 12 for bug 556293

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Dan Halbert (dhalbert) wrote : Re: sudo does not keep http_proxy environment variable

The symptoms described are due to changes made for bug 432631. Perhaps this should be marked as a duplicate (though it's kind of an anti-duplicate!)

The documentation of this change is in /usr/share/doc/sudo/changelog.Debian.gz:

sudo (1.7.2p1-1ubuntu4) lucid; urgency=low

  * env.c: Revert addition of "http_proxy" again. This was an Ubuntu specific
    EBW hack, caused inconsistencies with other proxy variables (such as
    https_proxy and ftp_proxy), made sudo incompatible to upstream
    behaviour/documentation. This is solved in a much better way in apt itself
    and gnome-network-properties now. (LP: #432631)

[changes in intervening versions elided]

 -- Martin Pitt <<email address hidden> (1.7.0-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

[...]
   - env.c: Add "http_proxy" to initial_keepenv_table, so that it is kept
     for "sudo apt-get ...". (Ubuntu specific EBW hack, should disappear at
     some point)