Adding a PPA's keys to the system is painful : allow to copy/paste a key directly in Synaptic

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Binary package hint: synaptic

From launchpadhelp - Adding a PPA's keys to your system :

"Adding the keys using Gnome

Step 1: Visit the PPA's overview page in Launchpad.

Step 2: Click the key fingerprint on the overview page.

Step 3: This will take you to the key's page in the Ubuntu keyserver. Click the ID

Step 4: Copy the public key

Step 5: Paste the public key into a text editor and save it.

Step 6: Open System->Administration->Software Sources and click the Authentication tab.

Step 7: Click Import Key File, select the key you saved earlier and you're done! "

https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA#Adding%20a%20PPA%27s%20keys%20to%20your%20system

But we could have a few less steps if Synaptic could allow to directly paste the key (in the same way that we do for adding a PPA to our Ubuntu repositories : we don't paste the PPA's URL in a file through a text editor to finally import the Key File, we just paste the PPA's URL into Synaptic)

Therefore it would be cool if Authentication tab in System->Administration->Software Sources could have one more option and could offer :
Import key file / paste Key / remove
instead of :
Import key / remove

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. Re-assigning to software-properties

[Rafik Elouerchefani (rafik)]

This is also confirmed for any other repository.

Actually, I import the key using FireGPG and run "gpg -a --export THEKEYID | sudo apt-key add -". That makes it faster but is there a way to graphically do the second one ?