Kubuntu PPA doesn't work

[Volker Wysk]

Am Dienstag, 1. November 2016, 04:41:49 CET schrieb Clay Weber:
> As mentioned, it is the add-apt-repository script that does not check to see
> if there are any relevant packages in a given ppa before adding it to your
> software sources.  Apt itself has nothing to do with this as it is not the
> tool being used to modify your software sources.
> 
> software-sources-common *is* the correct package to file a bug report
> against. 

But shouldn't the PPA be added by add-apt-repository, even when it is, at the 
moment, empty with respect to the relevant release? There might be packages in 
it later.

I think, there simply should be no error message, in this case, when "apt 
update" is run.

Cheers,
V.W.