[Bug 983741] Re: add-apt-repository crashed with ValueError in raw_decode(): No JSON object could be decoded

[Moritz Naumann]

I agree, I'm not sure why it got marked as security issue in the first
place (I believe apport did this based on some criteria).

For what it's worth, this bug which affects oneiric does not affect
precise. Precise would handle the incorrect repository location
gracefully and return an error message of:

Cannot access PPA (https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~speed-
dreams/+archive/pp) to get PPA information, please check your internet
connection.

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Title:
  add-apt-repository crashed with ValueError in raw_decode(): No JSON
  object could be decoded

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  As you can see in the details, I was missing the trailing 'a' in PPA
  here, it had been cut off during copy + paste. So the repository
  location was incorrect, but the application should probably not crash
  so hard.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: python-software-properties 0.81.13.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-18.31-generic 3.0.26
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-18-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Apr 15 02:11:21 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apt-add-repository ppa:speed-dreams/pp
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apt-add-repository', 'ppa:speed-dreams/pp']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: add-apt-repository crashed with ValueError in raw_decode(): No JSON object could be decoded
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-21 (179 days ago)
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