** Summary changed: - apt-add-repository always returns "user or team does not exist." for ppa repos + apt-add-repository returns "user or team does not exist." when erroring out due to proxy auth needed
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to software-properties in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1537056 Title: apt-add-repository returns "user or team does not exist." when erroring out due to proxy auth needed Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have just installed a fresh Ubuntu 15.10 to my machine and run into trouble with adding ppa repositories using apt-add-repository: for e.g. running apt-add-repository ppa:git-core/ppa Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~git-core/ubuntu/ppa'. ERROR: '~git-core' user or team does not exist. After debugging a lot of code, I found the trouble, the used proxy- server needs authentification but the apt-add-repository does not throw a correct error message fro this case: The PPAException raised here seems to be interpreted as not available, which is rather hard to debug. def _get_https_content_py3(lp_url): print("RETRIEVING URL: %s"%lp_url) try: request = urllib.request.Request(str(lp_url), headers={"Accept":" application/json"}) lp_page = urllib.request.urlopen(request, cafile=LAUNCHPAD_PPA_CERT) json_data = lp_page.read().decode("utf-8", "strict") print(" RV: %s"%str(json_data)) except (URLError, HTTPException) as e: # HTTPException doesn't have a reason but might have a string # representation print(e) reason = hasattr(e, "reason") and e.reason or e raise PPAException("Error reading %s: %s" % (lp_url, reason), e) The last print(e) gives me the hint what went wrong: <urlopen error Tunnel connection failed: 407 Proxy Authorization Required> For the future it would be great to get a correct error message. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/1537056/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
