Package: software-properties-gtk
Version: 0.60.debian-1.1
Severity: normal
Try this:
1) run software-properties-gtk
2) in it's main window, uncheck the 'Officially supported(main)'
3) close the window.
4) it will prompt you to 'reload the software sources'. Do it.
5) Now try to launch the program again (to add the main repository back!)
6) Nothing will happen.
If you now run the program from console, you will see it fail with the
following traceback:
utumno:/home/leszek# software-properties-gtk
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not
stable yet
warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
Debian
n/a
Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable
testing/unstable
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 100, in <module>
app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=data_dir, options=options, file=file)
File
"/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py",
line 75, in
__init__
SoftwareProperties.__init__(self, options=options, datadir=datadir)
File
"/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py",
line 55, in
__init__
self.reload_sourceslist()
File
"/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py",
line 450, in
reload_sourceslist
self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 87, in
get_sources
"Error: could not find a distribution template")
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException
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I investigated this problem and I found out the following ( my description can
be a bit vague,
I dont speak Python ) :
1) The 'NoDistroTemplateException' is raised becase the condition
'self.is_codename(template.name)' in
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/aptsources/distro.py line 79 is always false.
2) The condition is always false because 'self.codename' is equal to 'n/a' (
should be 'sid' )
3) this is because in line 424 function 'lsb_release -c -s' returns 'n/a'
4) this is because in file '/usr/bin/lsb_release' variable 'distinfo' does not
contain a 'CODENAME'
5) this is because function 'guess_debian_release' ( line 173 ) failed to set
it.
6) this is because
a) my '/etc/debian_version' contains 'lenny/sid' so it does not go into the
'if' in line 188
b) then function 'guess_release_from_apt' returns 'None' so it does not go
into the 'if' in
line 206 and fails to set the CODENAME altogether.
7) 'guess_release_from_apt' returns 'None' because 'parse_apt_policy' does NOT
return a release
with ( origin='Debian', component='main', label='Debian' )
8) 'parse_apt_policy' does not return such policy because 'apt-cache policy'
does not return it.
9) 'apt-cache policy' does not return it because we just removed the 'main'
repository from
sources.list and issues a apt-get update...
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In short: software-properties-gtk merrily removes the 'main' repository and
cannot add it back.
I think this should be serious.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages software-properties-gtk depends on:
ii gksu 2.0.0-5 graphical frontend to su
ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-glade2 2.12.1-6 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gtk2 2.12.1-6 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-software-properti 0.60.debian-1.1 manage the repositories that you i
ii python-support 0.8.7 automated rebuilding support for P
ii synaptic 0.62.1 Graphical package manager
software-properties-gtk recommends no packages.
software-properties-gtk suggests no packages.
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