Bug#1039081: LWP::Protocol::socks fails since LWP 6.69

[Klaus Ethgen]

Package: libwww-perl
Version: 6.70-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

See https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl/issues/431

Since the recent updates from 6.68 to 6.70 and then to 6.71 socks fails
completely.

Please stop delivering new versions until that is fixed upstream or
apply a patch reverting the broken pull request
(https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl/pull/62/files) from the
debian package.

To emphasis that, this versions break socks support completely.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.12 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libwww-perl depends on:
ii  ca-certificates             20230311
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.05-3
ii  libfile-listing-perl        6.15-1
ii  libhtml-parser-perl         3.81-1
ii  libhtml-tagset-perl         3.20-6
ii  libhtml-tree-perl           5.07-3
ii  libhttp-cookiejar-perl      0.014-1
ii  libhttp-cookies-perl        6.10-1
ii  libhttp-date-perl           6.05-2
ii  libhttp-message-perl        6.44-2
ii  libhttp-negotiate-perl      6.01-2
ii  liblwp-mediatypes-perl      6.04-2
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.10-1
ii  libnet-http-perl            6.22-1
ii  libtry-tiny-perl            0.31-2
ii  liburi-perl                 5.19-2
ii  libwww-robotrules-perl      6.02-1
ii  netbase                     6.4
ii  perl                        5.36.0-7

Versions of packages libwww-perl recommends:
ii  libdata-dump-perl    1.25-1
ii  libhtml-form-perl    6.11-1
ii  libhtml-format-perl  2.16-2
ii  libhttp-daemon-perl  6.16-1
ii  libmailtools-perl    2.21-2

Versions of packages libwww-perl suggests:
pn  libauthen-ntlm-perl  <none>

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Klaus Ethgen                                       http://www.ethgen.ch/
pub  4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16            Klaus Ethgen <Klaus at Ethgen.ch>
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