apt-add-repository command named incorrectly

[MoLE]

From lucid onwards the apt-add-repository command is used to add a repository to the sources.list
Unfortunately in karmic this command was originally named add-apt-repository.

This produces some confusion especially in new users, as the existing documentation assumes the new command name also exists in karmic.

For example:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ#How%20do%20I%20use%20the%20Ubuntu%20One%20beta%20PPA%20on%20Ubuntu%209.10%20and%20higher?

As Karmic was the first release which contained this tool, changing the name retrospectively will allow continued documentation to refer to the tool as noted in the ubuntu one docs above.

Although I'm not a skilled programmer, I suspect backporting the lucid version of this package to karmic may solve this issue quickly and simply.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 4 21:03:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: python-software-properties 0.75.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.60-generic
SourcePackage: software-properties
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic x86_64

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Karmic reached EOL, and later releases already use apt-add-repository, so I am marking this Won't Fix, as backporting to an EOL release will not happen.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.