Comment 7 for bug 45722

This should be upgraded from Whishlist to Serious Bug and also be backported to dapper. The upgrade to flash 9 is hanging people's auto updates.

People do not configure wget. They only configure synaptic because they want the updates and firefox because they want to surf. With flash 9 out now the update hangs for most people behind a proxy because the postinstall script cannot download the flashplayer from the web. In some cases (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=307383) hosing the apt cache.

postinstall scripts (including wget when called from postinstall) should use apt's proxy configuration by default. A sysadmin setting a proxy for automatic updates but not for anything else (because the user isn't allowed to access the net for exampel) is a very reasonable assumption.