[Bug 1781917] Re: Misleading error message when adding PPA source

[Paul White]

** Tags added: xenial

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Title:
  Misleading error message when adding PPA source

Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  Please add the exception message to stdout, preferably in all cases
  where an exception is caught.

  When trying to add a ppa source, following error message was displayed

  ~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
  Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~ubuntu-toolchain-r/ubuntu/test'.
  ERROR: '~ubuntu-toolchain-r' user or team does not exist.

  After reading code and adding print statements in ppa.py, came to following exception:
   'Error reading https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645)'

  Exception was thrown by 'get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa)' called in
  'get_ppa_info(shortcut)'

  This has nothing to do with user or team, but was due to wrong
  time/date setting on my machine.

  Googling found that there are more users with the same problem having
  a different root-cause (e.g. proxy server settings)

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