janakaravi: please don't assign yourself to bugs unless you plan to work
on them and provide a patch for the issue.
Looks to me like add-apt-repository works just fine behind even a very
restrictive proxy; however there is a catch (but not something that can
be worked around in code, or that should be worked around in code).
add-apt-repository itself requires the https_proxy variable to be able
to access Launchpad and get information about the PPAs, such as their
descriptions, signing key, etc.
However, the *http_proxy* variable is also required, because that's what
gets used by apt-key/gpg to retrieve the GPG keys signing the PPA
packages.
I'll mark this as Fix Released for Quantal since it's clearly working
properly; and open a task for Precise set to Incomplete until I or the
original reporter can re-test on Precise with http_proxy set.
It's possible any other issues may come from sudo clearing some
environment variables it shouldn't, but that should already have been
fixed in Quantal and Precise.
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Assignee: janakaravi (janakaravi) => (unassigned)
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
** Also affects: software-properties (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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