Pkg.init() fails with https: Name or service not known #17661
Description
Using julia 0.5.0-rc0 with libgit2 0.24.1 on Debian sid:
julia> Pkg.init()
INFO: Initializing package repository /home/peter/.julia/v0.5
INFO: Cloning METADATA from https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
ERROR: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:Net, Failed to resolve address for https: Name or service not known)
in init() at ./pkg/pkg.jl:70
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.5.0-rc0+0
Commit 0030eec (2016-07-26 20:22 UTC)
Platform Info:
System: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 V2 @ 3.40GHz
WORD_SIZE: 64
BLAS: libopenblas (NO_LAPACKE DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Sandybridge)
LAPACK: libopenblas
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-3.8.1 (ORCJIT, ivybridge)
The libgit2 Debian package is built with libcurl3-gnutls 7.47.0.