Package: software-properties-common Version: 0.96.20.2-1 Severity: important
Dear Maintainer, apt-add-repositry non-free (or contrib) does not add the component but adds a bogus line which breaks future apt updates: 0 root@jan-desktop:/etc/apt#cat sources.list deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main 0 root@jan-desktop:/etc/apt#apt-add-repository non-free 'non-free' distribution component enabled for all sources. 0 root@jan-desktop:/etc/apt#cat sources.list deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unknown.new.testing non-free 0 root@jan-desktop:/etc/apt# I expected instead deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (10, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages software-properties-common depends on: ii ca-certificates 20161130 ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.50.0-1 ii gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 1.1.4-3 ii python-apt-common 1.1.0~beta5 ii python3 3.5.1-4 ii python3-dbus 1.2.4-1 ii python3-gi 3.22.0-2 ii python3-software-properties 0.96.20.2-1 pn python3:any <none> Versions of packages software-properties-common recommends: ii packagekit 1.1.4-3 software-properties-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information