Maybe, it looks threading related. I couldn't reproduce it in lucid, even with smart 1.4 (same package as in oneiric, but using pysupport instead of dh_python2 to build the package). That command I posted indeed disabled the usage of pycurl and makes smart fallback to urllib.
Maybe, it looks threading related. I couldn't reproduce it in lucid, even with smart 1.4 (same package as in oneiric, but using pysupport instead of dh_python2 to build the package). That command I posted indeed disabled the usage of pycurl and makes smart fallback to urllib.