Comment 7 for bug 232469

I don't wish to denigrate the seriousness of this bug; but it may be worth pointing out that large organizations will more frequently deploy "transparent" proxies, rather than configure everyone's browsers to use something (which employees can more easily work around).

Of course, there are still plenty of organizations (especially, I think, smallish-to-medium-sized ones) that will opt for configuration-requiring proxies; and anyway there are plenty of other reasons to need Synaptic to support proxying properly.

However, let's not forget that Ubuntu is an almost entirely volunteer-run organization; there is always tons of work to be done and far too few people to do it. If you're really motivated to see this change, it's much more effective to look into what it would take to implement it, and take the first steps toward doing so yourself.