Comment 10 for bug 362970

This is a problem with the deb script running wget -- wget does not honor apt's proxy configuration settings, and instead uses the environment variable http_proxy and https_proxy to determine whether and what proxy to use.

I'm not sure if Debs are intelligent enough, but perhaps it's possible for the apt system to provide proxy information to script within .deb packages -- such that they can query for proxy, and then configure the environment that the .deb installer script runs in with http_proxy info provided by apt?