Comment 1 for bug 1374459

Note that pycurl treats proxies differently, so the following will need to be added to the packaging branch when the time comes:

diff -Nru system-image-2.5/debian/rules system-image-2.5/debian/rules
--- system-image-2.5/debian/rules 2014-09-17 17:56:44.000000000 +0000
+++ system-image-2.5/debian/rules 2014-09-30 15:47:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@

 override_dh_auto_test:
  unset http_proxy; unset https_proxy; \
+ export no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.1"; \
  export SYSTEMIMAGE_REACTOR_TIMEOUT=1200; \
  export SYSTEMIMAGE_DBUS_DAEMON_HUP_SLEEP_SECONDS=2; \
  PYBUILD_SYSTEM=custom \

(given by mvo)