On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Austin English <austinengl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Dmitry Smirnov <only...@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
