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[David Kalnischkies <1456479@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the report! Unfortunately reporting it against apt is
incorrect as apt itself contains no program which "automatically" adds
PPAs or similar such. It just takes the sources.list content and
interprets it. So it was either you adding this PPA by hand in which
case its a user error (copy&paste maybe?) OR it was a tool (potentially
in the apt-* namespace, but not maintained by the apt team) which has
this bug.

Its a bit unlikely perhaps, but as far as apt is concerned main" could
be a valid component (also, because it is hardly defined which
characters could be) and the error messages it prints tell you that it
tried to get data for the main" component as it was configured to do,
but wasn't able to.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  PPA info with trailing quote in /etc/apt/sources.list

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I tried to install and test a PPA, which has been working in several
  previous versions. But now there was an error, and I think I have
  tracked it down to a trailing double quote (") after the corresponding
  entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.

  Anyway after removing the trailing quote, it worked, so

  from

  tail /etc/apt/sources.list
  deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu wily-security multiverse

  ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
  ## 'partner' repository.
  ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
  ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
  # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu wily partner
  # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu wily partner
  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mkusb/unstable/ubuntu wily main"
  deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mkusb/unstable/ubuntu wily main"

  to

  tail /etc/apt/sources.list
  deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu wily-security multiverse

  ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
  ## 'partner' repository.
  ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
  ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
  # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu wily partner
  # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu wily partner
  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mkusb/unstable/ubuntu wily main
  deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mkusb/unstable/ubuntu wily main

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: apt 1.0.9.9ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-16.16-generic 3.19.3
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-16-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue May 19 09:17:51 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-19 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha i386 (20150512)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=sv
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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