Hi,
i want to confirm, that i have the same issue with a Raspberry PI B+. Here is my output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 167, in <module>
sp = SoftwareProperties(options=options)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 99, in __init__
self.sourceslist = SourcesList()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/sourceslist.py", line 273, in __init__
self.matcher = SourceEntryMatcher(matcherPath)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/sourceslist.py", line 458, in __init__
dist = DistInfo(f, base_dir=matcherPath)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distinfo.py", line 261, in __init__
component.set_description(_(value))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 17: invalid start byte
Unfortunately, i am not able to get an old repo running. When i add the following line to my /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable wheezy main
and afterwards run apt-get update as root i get the following error message:
W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable/dists/wheezy/InRelease Erwarteter Eintrag »main/binary-armhf/Packages« konnte in Release-Datei nicht gefunden werden (falscher Eintrag in sources.list oder missgebildete Datei).
Sorry its in german. I'll post the english version right in a minute.
-Michael