[Bug 514864] Re: Unhelpful listing in software-properties/-sources

[Robert Roth]

@mpt: We can query the repository data for PPAs without having to add
them to the sources, as it's done in apt-add-repository to confirm that
you want to add the repository, so we could query the name/short
description. However there still are some blanks, like medibuntu or
other (non-PPA) repositories used, for which we either have to add them
to the software sources, or build the repository description file URL
and read the description from there (From the release file we can get
the name of the release, and we should map components like main,
universe, etc to human-readable names).

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Title:
  Unhelpful listing in software-properties/-sources

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: software-center

  software-store 1.1.10
  software-properties-gtk 0.75.7

  When enabling sources from the details view of software-center the
  listing of the source in the software-properties-gtk is 'Added by
  software-center'. This should be something more helpful. See
  attachment.

  The relevant sources.list line is 'deb
  http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner #Added by software-
  center'.

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