Comment 27 for bug 24250

I am trying to do a release upgrade to karmic from jaunty and have noticed it does not honor proxy settings.
Currently, regular upgrades work, but the dist-upgrade is failing.
I am running from a non-privileged user prompt

  sudo update-manager -d

In another terminal i have a tcpdump running.
When update-manager launches I can see it connecting to my apt-cacher on port 3142.
But when I click the new distribution upgrade button, I can see it making direct requests to the internet, bypassing the proxy server.
I have proxy unset in the environment variables, but set in apt.conf, in synaptics, and in gnome all to the same thing. (my apt-cacher)
Even when I use the http_proxy= environment variable I get the same result.

It seems update-manager's dist-upgrade process ignores any proxy setting.

Is anyone else having this problem?