A bit late to the party, but if the root cause is that the package hasn't finished building yet, it would be nice to see that noted in the error message.
I still had to google "signing key fingerprint does not exist" to figure out what was going on. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/968756 Title: apt-add-repository fails while adding ppa if signing_key_fingerprint does not exist To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/968756/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs