[Bug 926548] Re: add-apt-repository fails with gnutls_handshake error

[Robert Roth]

This seems to be an issue with pycurl itself (the library used to get the PPA information), so I am reassigning this to the pycurl package, and also adding the upstream (Debian) bug report link.
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** Package changed: software-properties (Ubuntu) => pycurl (Ubuntu)

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #515200
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515200

** Also affects: pycurl (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515200
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  add-apt-repository fails with gnutls_handshake error

Status in “pycurl” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “pycurl” package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Updated an 11.04 installation to 11.10 and then went to install the
  Cinnamon desktop environment using:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa

  The result was this:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 88, in <module>
      ppa_info = get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa_name)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 80, in get_ppa_info_from_lp
      curl.perform()
  pycurl.error: (35, 'gnutls_handshake() failed: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.')

  It does not appear to be linked to the particular repository, rather
  it appears to be a bug in the add-apt-repository command or the pycurl
  library.  I found one reference to a similar issue here:

  http://code.google.com/p/wfuzz/wiki/PyCurlSSLBug

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