[Bug 886273] Re: improve handling of broken sources.list files

[Edward Donovan]

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 108601
   Update-manager needs help info when terminating on wrong repositories and generally deal better with incorrect sources.list data

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Title:
  improve handling of broken sources.list files

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When there is a syntax error in an apt sources.list file a dialog is displayed with something along these lines:
  """
  Could not initialize the package information
  An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
  Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
  'E:Type 't/screenlets/ppa/ubuntu' is not known on line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/screenlets-ppa-oneiric.list'
  """

  This is usually a user error and shouldn't be reported as a bug.
  update-manager should handle this situation better and showing a clear
  message about how to fix that situation instead.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.154
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-2.3-generic 3.1.0
  Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.25-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Nov  4 14:10:13 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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