[Bug 1829588] Re: make it easy to add proposed; help text outdated

[Brian Murray]

Its worth mentioning that software-properties-gtk has a "Developer
Options" tab that allows you to enabled and disabled -proposed (provided
you aren't using a local mirror of the archive) and that is the
preferred method to enable -proposed. Which wiki page were you looking
at? It probably needs updating.

Additionally I briefly looked at the code for add-apt-repository and it
seems to have support for enabling / disabling components (e.g.
multiverse) but not pockets (e.g. -proposed).

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Title:
  make it easy to add proposed; help text outdated

Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I want to do some SRU testing but I have to look up how to add the
  -proposed lines to apt sources every time I want to do this task. The
  wiki page for it is pretty verbose and includes text like: "Replace
  "xenial" with "trusty", "vivid", "utopic", "precise", or "lucid"
  depending on which release you are on. "

  Adding -proposed should be as easy as running:

  sudo add-apt-repository proposed

  But this doesn't work:
  $ sudo add-apt-repository proposed
  Error: 'proposed' invalid

  The help text includes a bunch of examples of things that users almost
  never need to do any more:

  $ add-apt-repository -h
  [...]
    Examples:
      apt-add-repository 'deb http://myserver/path/to/repo stable myrepo'
      apt-add-repository 'http://myserver/path/to/repo myrepo'
      apt-add-repository 'https://packages.medibuntu.org free non-free'
      apt-add-repository http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
      apt-add-repository ppa:user/repository
      apt-add-repository ppa:user/distro/repository
      apt-add-repository multiverse

  
  https://packages.medibuntu.org is now owned by a commerce site, or squatter, or something similar. It also fails certificate validation. This should be removed.

  http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ has precise through utopic.
  Maybe we shouldn't remove this yet, but someday we may want to revisit
  this one.

  It'd be great to have examples of adding proposed, universe, security,
  updates, etc.

  Maybe it'd be nice to put a reference to whatever tool would also
  enable ESM.

  Thanks

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: software-properties-common 0.96.24.32.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-50.54-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-50-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri May 17 18:32:49 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-18 (2402 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-02 (381 days ago)

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