Ubuntu
software-properties package

  1. Bug #879943
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 879943

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Sam Segers (sam-sgrs) wrote :

software-properties-gtk launches a dbus service /usr/lib/software-properties/software-properties-dbus
This service loads the sources in memory and edits them from there and saves them on a change.
The service keeps running after closing the software properties.
If you change things in /etc/apt/source.list or /etc/apt/source.list.d, these get overwritten by the values when first launched software-properties-gtk + the changes you make there.
If you f.i. remove a source from source.list.d, software-properties-gtk indicates this correctly as deleted. But if you edit something, the file magically reappears from the dbus service.