This specific case appears to have been fixed a while ago. I couldn't
find the specific commit, but running this test case in 20.04, an error
is printed in the terminal, but no exception is raised.
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/953424
Title:
add-apt-repository does not handle malformed repo URL nicely
Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
add-apt-repository doesn't handle URLs nicely when they are malformed
in a particular way. If you forget to add a repository name to a full-
form ppa url it should fail gracefully but instead crashes:
sudo add-apt-repository http://ppa.launchpad.net/username/ubuntu
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 95,
in run
self.add_ppa_signing_key(self.ppa_path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line
103, in add_ppa_signing_key
owner_name, ppa_name, distro = ppa_path[1:].split('/')
ValueError: need more than 2 values to unpack
In this case I simply forgot to add the ppa name between the owner
name and the distro. The 'correct' lines for the malformed URL are
added to sources.list. It would be much nicer if add-apt-repository
could handle this issue more gracefully. This is on Ubuntu 11.10,
version 0.81.13.3.
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