Bug#797113: libdvd-pkg doesn't respect APT's proxy settings when downloading libdvdcss

[Austin English]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Monday 31 August 2015 00:58:50 Austin English wrote:
>>> Would you consider switching to using curl? I've attached a patch
>>> which does so (which fixes my issue when building tails with
>>> libdvd-pkg).
>>>
>>> Alternatively, we could try wget, then curl, then uscan. If you prefer
>>> that, let me know and I'll attach a new patch.
>>
>> Thanks but why do we need curl? Wget respects proxy settings from the
>> "http(s)_proxy" environment variables so this issue appears to be merely
>> incorrect proxy configuration on your system. Also you should be able to set
>> wget proxy settings in "/etc/wgetrc" or in "~/.wgetrc" and no patching would
>> be necessary...
>
> After more digging, I found the problem. A previous script replaces
> /usr/bin/wget with torsocks, but does not have that in place for curl.
>
> I'll follow up with tails on how to handle this. If you would consider
> adding the curl fallback or switching to curl, I'd appreciate it, but
> understand if you don't want to fix what's not broken (in Debian).
>
> --
> -Austin

For why Tails is replacing wget with torsocks, see:
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6623
also relevant:
https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-August/009383.html

-- 
-Austin