[Bug 987829] Re: add-apt-repository crashes with invalid ppa link

[Robert Roth]

This seems to be a problem with the medibuntu repositories and with the
PPA not providing packages for precise, so I am setting this to Invalid,
as this is not the fault of software-properties. Feel free to reopen if
you disagree, but as the repositories do not provide any packages for
the OS version you are running, displaying the error messages on apt-get
update seems the right thing to do.

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  add-apt-repository crashes with invalid ppa link

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

Bug description:
  dmtarmey at dmtarmey-DIXONSXP ~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:user/ppa:pkgcrosswire/ppa
  [sudo] password for dmtarmey:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 88, in <module>
      ppa_info = get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa_name)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 83, in get_ppa_info_from_lp
      return json.loads(lp_page)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 326, in loads
      return _default_decoder.decode(s)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
      obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode
      raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
  ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

  Can you tell me what this is showing please.

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