[feature request] add a proxy CLI option to debootstrap

[Bill Yikes]

debootstrap connects to the Internet but provides no proxy option, and the man page makes no mention of whether the http_proxy environment variable is honored. Ideally, Tor users would benefit most from SOCKS4a support. I suggest modeling after cURL ("--socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050").

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Did you actually set the relevant environment variable and test it?

[Bill Yikes (yik3s)]

Now that ~7 months have past, I don't recall if I tried the env var. Probably not, because nothing in the docs suggests that the env var has any effect. The http_proxy environment variable is a convention. Some apps honor the convention and some don't. In the case at hand, there's nothing to even suggest that debootstrap is proxy-capable.

If it is proxy-capable, great, but we still have a bug b/c it's undocumented.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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