Ubuntu
software-properties package

  1. Bug #1405950
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1405950

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incognito (prostovrn) wrote :

On Ubuntu14.10 with latest update I have the same error

# apt-add-repository ppa:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 119, in <module>
    shortcut = shortcut_handler(line)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 839, in shortcut_handler
    ret = factory(shortcut)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 382, in shortcut_handler
    return PPAShortcutHandler(shortcut)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 345, in __init__
    self.shortcut = mangle_ppa_shortcut(shortcut)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 133, in mangle_ppa_shortcut
    if (user[0] == "~"):
IndexError: string index out of range