[Merge] ~nteodosio/software-properties:xenial-ua into software-properties:ubuntu/xenial

[Nathan Teodosio]

Yes, json.loads accepts since Python 3.6 a bytes value[1]. Xenial is on 3.5.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#json.loads
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