[Bug 1024408] Re: Quantal installs do not include software-properties-common by default

[Robie Basak]

Parameswaran and Javier,

Please could you explain exactly what your expectations are?

add-apt-repository has never been included in a default server, although
I agree it should be and that we should change this.

Previous to Quantal, it was provided by python-software-properties, so
this was the package to install to get it, which I suppose is now
embedded in the brain of many Ubuntu Server users.

In Quantal, the software-properties source package has been rearranged.
To get add-apt-repository, you now need to install software-properties-
common.

Javier, what exactly are you trying to do, and what is your expectation
about what you are doing to solve this problem that doesn't work?

Is this bug just that the package that supplies add-apt-repository
should be added to the server seed, or some other dependency problem?

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Title:
  Quantal installs do not include software-properties-common by default

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Quantal server installations do not include software-properties-common
  by default. This has to be manually apt-get installed at the moment.

  Attempted with
  quantal-server-i386, on a vm, both manually and preseed based.

  Perhaps a wrong seed?

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