...A bug that is deterministically reproducible and prevents everyone
affected from installing or upgrading any packages whatsoever, with no
useful error message, is importance "Low"?

I'm sorry -- I don't want to be one of those hysterical bug commenters.
I just do want to make sure that I've been clear about the actual impact
of this bug.

AFAICT, users with an auto-configured proxy (e.g., most university users
with a library proxy, various corporate users, etc.) simply *cannot
install* upgrades, bug fixes, security fixes, etc., without a manual
workaround. 'apt-get' doesn't work. Update manager doesn't work. Once
someone is affected by this bug, they will not receive whatever fix is
eventually released. The longer it persists, the more users will get
"stuck" like this.

Also, as noted above, it isn't actually a bug in gnome-terminal, but in
whatever program is responsible for setting up the environment for
panel-launched programs. gnome-session? gnome-panel? I'm not sure.

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Regression: "Automatic proxy configuration" + gnome-terminal now breaks 
apt-get, curl, wget...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433827
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