Kubuntu PPA doesn't work

[Clay Weber]

On Monday, October 31, 2016 7:21:41 PM EDT Volker Wysk wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Am Montag, 31. Oktober 2016, 13:20:29 CET schrieb Clay Weber:
> > There simply are no Xenial packages in that ppa; they will all be in the
> > kubuntu- backports one.  The Updates PPA ia only relevant to 12.04 and
> > 14.04 systems.
> > 
> > https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
> > 
> > Someone needs to update the wiki page to reflect this until or unless
> > there
> > are plans to use this ppa in the future.
> 
> I tried to file a bug report with ubuntu-bug. I've done this before. It
> shouldn't produce an error in the client, when a PPA simply is empty.
> 
> But now, this doesn't work at all. I don't know which package this is in, so
> I started "ubuntu-bug" without any arguments. I chose "dist-upgrade" for
> the question "which kind of problem do you want do report". Then it asks
> me, for what hardware I want to report a problem (??). I chose "It's not
> listed here". Then it asks me for sound problems - I have chosen nothing
> related to sound! Then it wants to perform a speaker test. Then it asks me
> no question, but only the text "test". Then I cancel this thing. At the
> end, it produces a segmenation fault.
> 
> Nevertheless, thanks for the help!
> 
> Volker

The ppa is not empty, it does not provide packages for each and every Ubuntu 
release. Many PPAs do not.

Probably the place to add the bug, or rather a feature request, on the script  
would be to file it against  software-properties-common, which is the package 
that provides the add-apt-repository script.

All this script does is take the ppa url, grabs the description of the ppa,  
converts the the url to a sources.list entry, and asks for confirmation before  
writing the file. so it is not much different from manually editing one's 
sources.list.  

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Clay Weber