Ubuntu
software-properties package

add-apt-repository cannot specify the release version

Bug #450503 reported by Mike Rushton on 2009-10-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #502454: add-apt-repository should allow version specification or offer next highest repo version if repo for running version is not found. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-properties (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

add-apt-repository does not allow us to specify the ubuntu release version available in the PPA repository. Some repositories have not been updated for whatever reason to karmic but the app still works even though we specify hardy, jaunty, etc in the sources.list file.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 13 12:28:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: python-software-properties 0.75.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: software-properties
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686

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Mike Rushton (leftyfb) wrote on 2009-10-13:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (630 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Mike Rushton (leftyfb) wrote on 2010-01-03:

This bug was reported 2 months BEFORE the other. How is it possible this was marked as a duplicate when it clearly originated first?

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2012-05-10:

In some cases the newer bug has more information, suggestions, etc marking the older one as a duplicate of the more recent one can be a good solution, and on bugs with more comments and duplicates the heat gets higher and higher, and it has more chance of getting noticed.
The resources are limited and we are trying hard to triage every bug, but that's very hard, so we might miss some bugs, and find only the more recent ones, and later on we find their earlier fellows, but we don't want to lose the triaging work put in the newer bug, so we mark the older one as a duplicate.