[Python-modules-team] Bug#754090: python-urllib3: Version 1.8.2 does not work with HTTPS and proxy tunneling

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Package: python-urllib3
Version: 1.8.2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

The original bug report is here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2014/06/msg00003.html

In short, a fix that made it into Python 2.7.7 and 3.4.1 changes the behavior
of httplib.HTTPConnection's tunneling handling. pip is among the modules
affected by this change: it is unusable if one is behind an HTTP proxy, as it
tries to connect via HTTPS to https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/ and fails.

A fix for this issue was committed to urllib3, and is part of the 1.8.3
release. Please consider updating to it (this release also contains a handful
of other bug fixes too).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-urllib3 depends on:
ii  python-six  1.7.3-1
pn  python:any  <none>

Versions of packages python-urllib3 recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20140325

python-urllib3 suggests no packages.

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