On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 02:45 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > Hello, > > the issue seems to be invariant of the watch file used. It still occurs. [...] > $ set | grep -i proxy > X509_USER_PROXY=/home/moeller/myproxy
Aha! This seems to be due to a change made upstream in libwww-perl in version 5.821: croak on bad proxy args [RT#39919] This is easily confirmable by checking whether the following also fails for you: #! /usr/bin/perl use LWP::UserAgent; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(env_proxy => 1); env_proxy is documented as reading environment variables of the form *_proxy. LWP maintainers - any thoughts? Should clients (e.g. uscan) be attempting to sanitise the proxy variables in the environment to only include those they specifically care about before using env_proxy? (or wrapping the call in an eval() and ignoring the specific error) That's obviously doable, but would need doing in every client individually, which seems somewhat overkill. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org