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software-properties package

add-apt-repository ppa:username does not add deb-src entry

Bug #399711 reported by Dominic Evans
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-properties (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Andrea Corbellini
Nominated for Lucid by Heimen Stoffels

Bug Description

this is probably related to the fix for bug 301602 but is not exactly a duplicate one

running `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:username` creates /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kwwii-ppa-karmic.list with only the 'deb' entry for the compiled binaries but does not add the corresponding deb-src entry which are also available from the PPA

this prevents the user from trivially investigating/patching the source for a package they found via PPA

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 15 13:35:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: python-software-properties 0.75
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: software-properties
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686

Related branches

lp:~andrea.corbellini/software-properties/bug-399711
Michael Vogt: Pending requested
Diff: 23 lines (+8/-5)
1 file modified
softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py (+8/-5)
Revision history for this message
Dominic Evans (oldmanuk) wrote :
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Heimen Stoffels (vistaus) wrote :

I can confirm this bug.

Will it be fixed when 10.04 comes out?

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
tags: added: deb software-properties
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Andrea Corbellini (andrea-bs)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Ryan Thompson (rct86) wrote :

Without any express or implied warranty, the following workaround worked for me. It searches for any "deb" lines for ppa sources, and adds the corresponding "deb-src" line after it. Furthermore, it makes an effort not to introduce consecutive duplicate lines, and it keeps backups.

sudo perl -lanE '
BEGIN { my $prev_line; }
print if $_ ne $prev_line;
$prev_line = $_ unless m{^\s*(#|$)};
if (m{\Qdeb http://ppa.launchpad.net}) {
    s/^deb/deb-src/; print;
    $prev_line = $_;
}' -iBACKUP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list

Revision history for this message
Dominic Evans (oldmanuk) wrote :

This bug has been sitting waiting in review since 2010-04-01. The .diff is quite small. Any chance we could see it get some movement? :-)

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)
tags: added: patch-forwarded-upstream
Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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