+1 Maintenance Report

[Benjamin Drung]

On Fri, 2024-05-31 at 18:27 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> ### httpx ###
> 
> This is the source of blockage for a number of python modules,
> flask-sqlalchemy, etc.  The errors tend to be proxy errors and timeouts
> on socket connections.  Retriggering them hasn't seemed to resolve
> them.  I poked around upstream and in debian but whatever is going on
> seems to be unique to us.
> 
> My guess it is some conflict with how the httpx proxy's tests are
> interacting with our infrastructure squid.  Near as I can tell this
> worked with httpx/0.26.0-2 and regressed with 0.27, so it seems likely
> to be a change in this release.  The changelog for
> 0.27 (https://github.com/encode/httpx/releases/tag/0.27.0) has only 3
> entries, one of which is a fix to make http1 work, which appears to have
> been an issue with squid in the distant past.  
> 
> I think this may need someone more conversant in autopkgtest
> infrastructure to examine.

I have seen failing test cases related to HTTP proxies. The autopkgtest
in Ubuntu has http_proxy and/or https_proxy set. Unsetting those two
environment variables would be my first try.

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer