Comment 4 for bug 973288

Neither am I, but that sounds reasonable, let's see what we can do about it.

I'm very glad to see the upstream changelog say "proxy hostname is resolved at run-time not during startup (as requested)" which means that we can sync 0.92 from Debian, overriding my Ubuntu-specific changes.
That'll solve the problem for quantal.

For precise, your patch applies, and I've prepared an upload including it in
https://launchpad.net/~stefanor/+archive/sru

Please see if this resolves the issue for you, if it does, we can go ahead with the SRU.