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update-manager package

  1. Bug #173050
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 173050

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: update-manager does not correctly interpret gnome proxy configuration [gutsy]

I am still seeing this broken on Intrepid.

Any ETA on when this will be fixed?

This behavior is quite anti-social to one's local networking infrastructure, unnecessarily overloading HTTP proxy servers when proxying is supposed to be excepted for the provided apt servers.