[Bug 2052851] Re: add-apt-repository Cannot Manage deb822 Repository Sources

[Josh Lopez]

For now I'm using the following workaround to create the old style
'<ppa-name>.list' file from the command line (ZSH). It's a pain, but PPA
management works peachy again.

1. Created an 'aptaddppa' function:

---

aptaddppa () {

     curl -fsSL
"https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x${4}" | sudo
gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/"${1}".gpg

     echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] ${2} $(lsb_release
-cs) ${3}" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/"${1}".list

     sudo apt update
}

---

2. From the command line (ZSH):

$ aptaddppa flacon https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/flacon/ppa/ubuntu
main 0606FBEA73863686801BE20ED5790E4FF2A61FE5

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Title:
  add-apt-repository Cannot Manage deb822 Repository Sources

Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  On Ubuntu 23.10...

  * When adding a PPA, 'add-apt-repository' will add the repository in
  the new deb822 format as a <ppa-name>.sources file in
  '/etc/apt/sources.list.d'

  * However, 'add-apt-repository --list' cannot see/understand the new
  '<ppa-name>.sources' file

  For example, with the flacon ppa
  (https://launchpad.net/~flacon/+archive/ubuntu/ppa):

  1. 'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flacon/ppa' adds the flacon repo as
  '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/flacon-ubuntu-ppa-mantic.sources'

  2. apt can install and update from the new repo, as expected. you can
  also remove the repo, as expected, by running 'sudo add-apt-repository
  --remove ppa:flacon/ppa'

  3. However, 'add-apt-repository --list' does not list the repo as it
  should. GUI package managers such as Muon and Synaptic also do not see
  the new repo.

  It makes working with packages quite frustrating, and unfortunately,
  per Julian Andres Klode (juliank), there seems to be no plan to fix
  the broken 'software-properties-common' any time soon. See here:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-
  properties/+bug/2033949

  Also see related issues:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ppa-purge/+bug/2036761
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/2037210
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/2036288
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2023-September/042791.html

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