Comment 3 for bug 314945

I think it's ok to promote ASAP to unblock GNOME, but found some issues worth fixing:
10:13 <@lool> pochu: libproxy-dev should be arch: any; it doesn't make a
              substantial space saving to have it arch: all and will cause
              installability issues on slow arches
10:14 <@lool> pochu: python-libproxy is arch: all but has a depends on
              shlibs:Depends?
10:15 <@lool> No AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and the configure patch is in the wrong
              order; will cause an autofoo update

I had read the thread on libproxy on debian-devel@, but I re-read it; the conclusion is that WPAD is disabled by default by gnome-network-properties, but might is enabled by default outside of GNOME. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-December/msg00160.html
Critic of WPAD's flaws: http://www.mercenary.net/blog/index.php?/archives/42-HOWTO-WPAD.html