Thanks for your bugreport. This is fixed in hardy now. Even if the initial sources.list is invalid the update will continue and comment out broken entries when the sources.list is updated to the new distribution.
Cheers, MIchael ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- [Master] update-manager gives useless error message for invalid sources.list lines https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156778 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs