[Bug 1846543] [NEW] --massive-debug option produces very little debug messaging

[Jeff Lane]

Public bug reported:

According to --help:

  -m, --massive-debug   Print a lot of debug information to the command
line

Now, perhaps my understanding of the words "massive" and "debug" are
flawed, but the output I get while trying to debug failure to add a PPA
is neither massive, nor really debug level information:

ubuntu at hogplum:~$ sudo add-apt-repository -m ppa:checkbox-dev/testing
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~checkbox-dev/ubuntu/testing'.
ERROR: '~checkbox-dev' user or team does not exist.

The PPA most certainly exists:
https://code.launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/+archive/ubuntu/testing

This message is the utterly useless messaging one gets when add-apt-
repository cannot talk to something upstream, be it ppa.launchpad.net or
keyserver.ubuntu.com, perhaps.

Either way, "user or team does not exist" is factually wrong, and
utterly unhelpful, and the level of messaging is in no way debug level
messaging, nor is it massive.

add-apt-repository should actually provide MASSIVE debug level logging
when -m/--massive-debug is passed to it, explaining each and every
action it takes from beginning to end.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: software-properties-common 0.96.24.32.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-25.26~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Thu Oct  3 13:57:15 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-11 (1329 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160210)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: software-properties (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic

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Title:
  --massive-debug option produces very little debug messaging

Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  According to --help:

    -m, --massive-debug   Print a lot of debug information to the
  command line

  Now, perhaps my understanding of the words "massive" and "debug" are
  flawed, but the output I get while trying to debug failure to add a
  PPA is neither massive, nor really debug level information:

  ubuntu at hogplum:~$ sudo add-apt-repository -m ppa:checkbox-dev/testing
  Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~checkbox-dev/ubuntu/testing'.
  ERROR: '~checkbox-dev' user or team does not exist.

  The PPA most certainly exists:
  https://code.launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/+archive/ubuntu/testing

  This message is the utterly useless messaging one gets when add-apt-
  repository cannot talk to something upstream, be it ppa.launchpad.net
  or keyserver.ubuntu.com, perhaps.

  Either way, "user or team does not exist" is factually wrong, and
  utterly unhelpful, and the level of messaging is in no way debug level
  messaging, nor is it massive.

  add-apt-repository should actually provide MASSIVE debug level logging
  when -m/--massive-debug is passed to it, explaining each and every
  action it takes from beginning to end.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: software-properties-common 0.96.24.32.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-25.26~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-25-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
  Date: Thu Oct  3 13:57:15 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-11 (1329 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160210)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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