Comment 4 for bug 154494

yes. but the config now hides it:

$ sudo apt-get install apt-proxy
...

juser@averatec:/var/log$ cat apt-proxy.log
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] Log opened.
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] twistd 8.1.0 (/usr/bin/python 2.5.2) starting up
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] reactor class: <class 'twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor'>
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] Changing process name to apt-proxy
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] Log opened.
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] twistd 8.1.0 (/usr/sbin/apt-proxy 2.5.2) starting up
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] reactor class: <class 'twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor'>
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] apt_proxy.apt_proxy.Factory starting on 9999
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] Starting factory <apt_proxy.apt_proxy.Factory instance at 0x9e3f52c>
2008-11-01 15:15:03-0500 [-] set uid/gid 106/65534

juser@averatec:/var/log$ grep port /etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-v2.conf
;; Server port to listen on
port = 9999
;telnet_port = 9998

enable Debugging remote python console:

juser@averatec:/var/log$ grep port /etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-v2.conf
;; Server port to listen on
port = 9999
telnet_port = 9998

/etc/init.d/apt-proxy restart
 * Stopping apt-proxy [ OK ]
 * Starting apt-proxy /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/twisted/manhole/telnet.py:8: DeprecationWarning: As of Twisted 2.1, twisted.protocols.telnet is deprecated. See twisted.conch.telnet for the current, supported API.
  from twisted.protocols import telnet
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/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/twisted/manhole/telnet.py:8: DeprecationWarning: As of Twisted 2.1, twisted.protocols.telnet is deprecated. See twisted.conch.telnet for the current, supported API.
  from twisted.protocols import telnet
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