[Bug 220070] Re: msttcorefonts cannot install behind authenticating proxy

[Steve Langasek]

This should be fixed now in precise, which uses update-notifier and
python's urllib with apt proxy settings instead of wget.

** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  msttcorefonts cannot install behind authenticating proxy

Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: msttcorefonts

  This problem is similar to #56880, but I believe it is a distinct
  problem.

  This is occurring with gutsy, msttcorefonts 2.2.

  I operate behind an authenticating proxy. I have set http_proxy to an
  appropriate value of the form http://username:password@hostname:port/.
  For most things this seems to work okay - apt-get works, in
  particular.

  For msttcorefonts (and some other packages), installation fails during
  the setup phase. The problem is in the postinstall script. In
  particular, wget is not parsing the http_proxy variable correctly:

  conway at antisense:~$ wget http://www.abc.net.au/news/
  Error parsing proxy URL http://conway:XXXXXXX@proxy.ee.mu.oz.au:7000/: Bad port number. 
  conway at antisense:~$

  So, it looks like either a bug in the postinstall script, which fails
  to take into account the limitations of wget, or a bug in wget which
  fails to parse the value of http_proxy correctly.

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