Comment 4 for bug 854818

This may actually be a dupe (or different sympthom) of #820028 that got fixed with:

software-properties (0.81.10) oneiric; urgency=low

  * softwareproperties/dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py, tests/test_dbus.py:
    - fix crash when there are unicode comments in the sources.list
      file (LP: #820028). Dbus always sends us a dbus.String which is
      type unicode, but python-apt expects utf8 encoded str

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:55:45 +0200