Package: software-properties-common Version: 0.99.30-4 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/apt-add-repository
On systems whose sources are stored in deb822 format, apt-add-repository commands that act on existing sources (such as `apt-add-repository --component contrib`) fail silently: They don't update the entries, but don't report an error either. I didn't go though a full fresh install to show its reproducibility, but it can be shown easily using Docker images: $ podman run --rm -it --network=host docker.io/debian:sid # apt-get update && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends software-properties-common # cp -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ /tmp/ # apt-add-repository --component contrib [Enter] # echo $? 0 # diff -r /tmp/sources.list.d/ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ [no differences] This is probably not trivial to fix given that software-properties deals in more than just this single tool. As a stop-gap measure against silent failure, operations on all repositories could start to fail once any `*.sources` file is present. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages software-properties-common depends on: ii ca-certificates 20211016 ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.74.0-3 ii gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 1.2.6-3 ii packagekit 1.2.6-3 ii python-apt-common 2.5.3 ii python3 3.11.2-1 ii python3-dbus 1.3.2-4+b1 ii python3-gi 3.42.2-3+b1 ii python3-software-properties 0.99.30-4 software-properties-common recommends no packages. software-properties-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers. -- Bene Gesserit axiom
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