Launchpad itself

Help for PPAs contains outdated information

Bug #1033919 reported by Martin Packman
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
Martin Packman

Bug Description

this page https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html which is linked on every ppa launchpad page states the following command, which is unsafe: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
in this case the command doesnt harm the system but it leads the users to use the sudo command with grafical programs which will cause problems.

in this howto the command should be either: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list or sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Tags: qa-ok

Related branches

lp://staging/~gz/launchpad/trivial_modern_ppa_help
Steve Kowalik (community): Approve (code)
Diff: 112 lines (+0/-95)
1 file modified
lib/lp/soyuz/help/ppa-sources-list.html (+0/-95)
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Martin Packman (gz) wrote :

Just losing the old instructions for versions of Ubuntu prior to 9.10 seems sensible.

Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Achim Behrens (k1l) wrote :

Since only the 8.04 Server is supported theese days im fine with that :)

Martin Packman (gz)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → Martin Packman (gz)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :

Fixed in stable r15773 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/15773>.

tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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