[Python-apps-team] Bug#498711: mercurial: hg clone fails with https site behing an http proxy

[eric]

Package: mercurial
Version: 1.0.1-5
Severity: normal

I host several mercurial repositories on my own server. They are
accessible by https with Apache auth using hgwebdir.cgi.

I used to clone from these repositories with no problem when i was on
Debian Etch with backports from http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/ (to
have hg 1.0+), but since i upgraded to lenny, hg clone is broken.

For information, hg push is also broken, but was also in Etch. It seems
related to this bug http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue967


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mercurial depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  mercurial-common              1.0.1-5    Scalable distributed version contr
ii  python                        2.5.2-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support                0.8.4      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                           3.007      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages mercurial recommends:
ii  meld                          1.1.5.1-2  graphical tool to diff and merge f
ii  python-beaker                 0.9.5-1    Simple WSGI middleware that uses t

Versions of packages mercurial suggests:
ii  python-elementtree        1.2.6-12       Light-weight toolkit for XML proce
ii  python-mysqldb            1.2.2-7        A Python interface to MySQL
pn  python-pygments           <none>         (no description available)
ii  python-subversion         1.5.1dfsg1-1   Python bindings for Subversion
pn  qct                       <none>         (no description available)
ii  tk8.4 [wish]              8.4.19-2       Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
ii  vim-gnome [vim]           1:7.1.314-3+b1 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor -
ii  vim-gtk [vim]             1:7.1.314-3+b1 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor -

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