Comment 9 for bug 1606203

Hmmm, sorry to be late in the game I got pinged only yesterday :-/

> That will probably be no fun to fix, and there's not much activity on bzr at the moment

Please add tasks to bzr in cases such like this bug or there is indeed no chance to trigger activity in the bzr project. Support and active development are not the same thing.
 Thanks in advance.

None of the log files are available anymore so I can't be 100% sure.

But it seems to me the issue here is caused by the launchpad pluging not using launchpadlib and introducing a bug in the proxy handling for a launchpad very specific feature (checking the related packaging branch) which is not supported by launchpad anymore anyway ;)

Long story short, if there is a way to reproduce, adding '-Olaunchpad.packaging_verbosity=off' to the command line should avoid the issue.

Your patch here will break all uses of authenticated proxies, which are, AFAIK, properly supported for http and https.

Alternatively, if this issue occurs only on launchpad builders 'no_proxy=launchpad.net' may be enough ?