Comment 8 for bug 186078

choose-mirror (alternate installer) used to ask for a proxy in some circumstances; in hardy it asks in all circumstances.

choose-mirror (2.19ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
    - Use Ubuntu mirrors.
    - Ubuntu branding.
    - Set default country to GB.
    - Never ask mirror/suite, mark it untranslatable, and give it
      appropriate choices for Ubuntu.
    - Pick CC.archive.ubuntu.com (for the country selected in the installer)
      as the default mirror.
    - Drop the priorities of the country/mirror questions to medium if we're
      installing from a CD that includes the base system.
    - Support setting OVERRIDE_BASE_INSTALLABLE in the environment to force
      choose-mirror to assume that the base system is installable.
    - Skip mirror validation if the base system is installable and we're
      installing from a mirror in the masterlist.
  * Stop checking if archive.ubuntu.com is reachable before asking for a
    proxy. This caused a number of very long delays on systems behind
    firewalls that dropped packets they didn't like rather than rejecting
    them. Furthermore, now that we have Ubiquity it is less important for
    Ubuntu's d-i to ask as few questions as possible, and more important for
    it to work correctly in corner cases.
  * Switch to hardy by default.
  * Drop unsupported releases from mirror/suite Choices.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:12:49 +0100