Package: software-properties-common Version: 0.99.27 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: mdmko...@yahoo.com
Dear Maintainer, This is a feature request to ask for an option to specify the release/codename to use when adding a PPA. Note that this option is likely to be useful for other types of additions, but I will focus on the PPA case for simplicity. ## Use Case The use-case to be solved is when a user on for example Ubuntu 23.04 (codename "lunar") wants to add a PPA using a release/codename other than "lunar". This may be required to add PPAs like ppa:aos1/diff-so-fancy or ppa:appimagelauncher-team/stable that do not yet have a "lunar" release. (At the time of this writing the latest releases of these are "jammy" and "kinetic" respectively.) However, invoking "apt-add-repository ppa:aos1/diff-so-fancy" always put a "lunar" line in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aos1-ubuntu-diff-so-fancy-kinetic.list, and "apt update" will subsequently fail. ## Requested Feature My request is that there be added an option similar to --component or --pocket that allows the user to directly specify the release/codename. For example, the user could say "apt-add-repository ppa:aos1/diff-so-fancy --release jammy" or "apt-add-repository ppa:aos1/diff-so-fancy --codename jammy". (I am not sure whether the preferred terminology is "release" or "codename".) Note that the --pocket option does not solve this problem as that is for specifying "--pocket updates" to get "lunar-updates". The --sourceslist option does not fully solve this problem either as it does not add the key for the PPA to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d. ## How to Implement Note that the code for the base-class of the handlers (in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/shortcuthandler.py) already has an argument for specifying the "codename", so I think implementing this would be as simple as adding a "codename" entry to "shortcut_params" in /usr/bin/apt-add-repository. Thank you for your time, Michael D. Adams -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers kinetic-updates APT policy: (500, 'kinetic-updates'), (500, 'kinetic-security'), (500, 'kinetic'), (100, 'kinetic-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-29-generic (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages software-properties-common depends on: ii ca-certificates 20211016ubuntu0.22.10.1 ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.74.0-2 ii gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 1.2.5-2ubuntu2 ii packagekit 1.2.5-2ubuntu2 ii python-apt-common 2.3.0ubuntu2.1 ii python3 3.10.6-1 ii python3-dbus 1.2.18-3build1 ii python3-gi 3.42.2-2 ii python3-software-properties 0.99.27 software-properties-common recommends no packages. software-properties-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
