*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 887249 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/887249
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 887249
Providing wrong ppa format in add-apt-repository throws a 404 error which is
not handled appropriately
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This bug has already been fixed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/887249
I see you are running 11.10, the fix is in 12.04, please see the patch
https://code.launchpad.net/~manishsinha/software-properties/fix-887249-handle-404-error/+merge/81488
if you want to port
Is this still an issue? I just tried to reproduce it with the following
results:
sudowned@jarrah:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:foobar/foo2bar
Cannot access PPA (https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~foobar/+archive/foo2bar) to
get PPA information, please check your internet connection.
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** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/912250
Title:
add-apt-repository crashes when I enter a PPA that doesn't
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privileg
