feature request: apt-ppa uri protocol

[Sergey Klimov]

1. change this text at launchpad:
Adding this PPA to your system

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:sikon/liferea-libindicate to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

to something like:
Adding this PPA to your system

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding <a href="apt-ppa:sikon/liferea-libindicate>ppa:sikon/liferea-libindicate</a> to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

2. write simple frontend for add-apt-repository, that shows information about ppa in command line argument, and ask user: "Do you want to add this untrusted PPA to your system?"
3. Add simple frontend as default handler for apt-ppa: protocol
4. profit!

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

we already had that feature in apturl for quite a while ... however, it is kept disabled because of potential security implications.

[OC (olivier-c)]

I agree that this is a risky proposal. I am not sure that most users realize the meaning of password prompts in Ubuntu, and/or would fully comprehend the meaning of "untrusted PPA", in terms of local security.

[Julien Nicoulaud (nicoulaj)]

May be adding an intermediate confirmation dialog could be OK ?
The confirmation dialog could list the packages in the PPA that override the ones of the current system, for example if the PPA contains a patched "nautlilus"...