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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983741 Title: add-apt-repository crashed with ValueError in raw_decode(): No JSON object could be decoded To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/983741/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
