Bug#597864: libproxy0 not functional without libmozjs2d

[Anye Li]

I'm running GNOME, and I'm configuring my proxy settings through
the GNOME Network Proxy preferences that is in the menu.  I think
the following steps would get you where I ended up:

1. Install Debian testing with a Desktop Environment (GNOME).

2. Set the automatic proxy configuration URL through the GNOME Network
   Proxy preferences.  If you run Epiphany, it should get the proxy
   configuration from that URL.

3. Remove the package libmoz2jsd.  Now if you run Epiphany it will not
   get the proxy configuration from that URL.

Thanks,

Anye

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:13:27 -0400
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Please, CC the bug report in your replies.
> 
> On 23/09/10 20:52, Anye Li wrote:
> > Thanks for the speedy response.
> > 
> >> (I'm not a KDE guy!), your environment, a configuration file... so
> >> we don't force anything to be installed, because you most likely
> >> have installed something so that libproxy can autodetect the proxy
> >> settings.
> > 
> > True perhaps, but from the user's point of view, the fact that
> > libproxy provides the automatic configuration functionality
> > advertised by the GNOME proxy preferences is probably more
> > important than the fact that libproxy is capable of looking looking
> > up the proxy configuration in various ways.  Personally, I was
> > blissfully unaware of libproxy's existence until my proxy settings
> > stopped working, and from my point of view, the problem looked like
> > libproxy wasn't providing the functionality I needed without
> > libmozjs.
> > 
> > If you think some other package is to blame, I'd be happy to re-file
> > the bug report there.  But I think there is a problem somewhere,
> > since it took me quite a bit of time to discover the reason my
> > proxy settings stopped working.
> 
> Where did you configure your proxy settings? In iceweasel maybe? Also
> what desktop environment are you using?
> 
> Regards,
> Emilio