[Bug 820028] Re: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in RemoveSource(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 99-100: ordinal not in range(128)

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This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.81.10

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software-properties (0.81.10) oneiric; urgency=low

  * softwareproperties/dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py, tests/test_dbus.py:
    - fix crash when there are unicode comments in the sources.list
      file (LP: #820028). Dbus always sends us a dbus.String which is
      type unicode, but python-apt expects utf8 encoded str
 -- Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com>   Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:55:45 +0200

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in
  RemoveSource(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
  99-100: ordinal not in range(128)

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “software-properties” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “software-properties” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  software properties crashed when using synaptic

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Aug  2 17:35:00 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk -n -t 54525989
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pt_BR:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '-n', '-t', '54525989']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in RemoveSource(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 99-100: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-31 (1 days ago)
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