feature request: apt-ppa uri protocol
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apturl |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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/
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-
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!
affects: | launchpad → soyuz |
affects: | soyuz → apturl |
tags: | added: ppa |
Changed in apturl: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
we already had that feature in apturl for quite a while ... however, it is kept disabled because of potential security implications.