[Bug 1005837] Re: update-notifier-common

[latimerio]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1037662 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1037662

I administer >100 hosts with 12.04LTS and 14.04LTS and the problem with update-notifier-common not respecting proxy settings is very annoying.
I have set the proxy in /etc/apt/apt.d/95proxies in /etc/environment and with gsettings as recommended in http://askubuntu.com/questions/150210/how-do-i-set-systemwide-proxy-servers-in-xubuntu-lubuntu-or-ubuntu-studio but still anacron reports the error.
I think the real bug is #1209146 as anacron does not run with the correct environment settings.

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Title:
  update-notifier-common

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Does not understand proxy.

  Setting up update-notifier-common (0.119ubuntu8.2) ...
  flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.235.orig.tar.gz
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 234, in process_download_requests
      dest_file = urllib.urlretrieve(files[i])[0]
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 93, in urlretrieve
      return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 239, in retrieve
      fp = self.open(url, data)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 207, in open
      return getattr(self, name)(url)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 344, in open_http
      h.endheaders(data)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 954, in endheaders
      self._send_output(message_body)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 814, in _send_output
      self.send(msg)

  wget works fine.

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