I concur... Today my update-manager (version 0.42.2ubuntu22 on Dapper) shows 23 updates available. None of them has a changelog displayed. The "Change" field briefly displays "Downloading the list of changes..." and then stays blank when clicking on each update.
The incriminated packages are: dpkg dpkg-dev dselect firefox firefox- dom-inspector firefox-gnome-support hal hal-device-manager info libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libhal-storage1 libhal1 libnspr4 libnss3 libpng12-0 libpng12-dev mozilla-thunderbird mozilla-thunderbird-inspector mozilla-thunderbird- typeaheadfind texinfo Aptitude is able to show the changelog for some of them but not all: $ aptitude changelog dpkg dpkg-dev dselect firefox firefox-dom-inspector firefox-gnome-support hal hal-device-manager info libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libhal-storage1 libhal1 libnspr4 libnss3 libpng12-0 libpng12-dev mozilla-thunderbird mozilla-thunderbird-inspector mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind texinfo Get:1 ChangeLog of dpkg [197kB] Fetched 197kB in 0s (302kB/s) Get:1 ChangeLog of dpkg-dev [197kB] Fetched 197kB in 0s (287kB/s) Get:1 ChangeLog of dselect [197kB] Fetched 197kB in 0s (259kB/s) Get:1 ChangeLog of firefox [128kB] Fetched 128kB in 0s (254kB/s) Ign ChangeLog of firefox-dom-inspector E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/f/firefox/firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for firefox-dom-inspector E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for firefox-gnome-support E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/h/hal/hal_0.5.7-1ubuntu18.2/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for hal E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/h/hal/hal_0.5.7-1ubuntu18.2/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for hal-device-manager E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/t/texinfo/texinfo_4.8-4ubuntu0.1/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for info E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/avahi/avahi_0.6.10-0ubuntu3.2/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libavahi-client3 E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/avahi/avahi_0.6.10-0ubuntu3.2/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libavahi-common-data E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/avahi/avahi_0.6.10-0ubuntu3.2/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libavahi-common3 E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/avahi/avahi_0.6.10-0ubuntu3.2/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libavahi-glib1 E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/h/hal/hal_0.5.7-1ubuntu18.2/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libhal-storage1 E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/h/hal/hal_0.5.7-1ubuntu18.2/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libhal1 E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libnspr4 E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libnss3 E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.8rel-5ubuntu0.1/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libpng12-0 E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.8rel-5ubuntu0.1/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for libpng12-dev E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/m/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for mozilla-thunderbird E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/m/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for mozilla-thunderbird-inspector E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/m/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind E: Couldn't fetch URL http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/t/texinfo/texinfo_4.8-4ubuntu0.1/changelog E: Couldn't find a changelog for texinfo And I did wait at least one day before trying to apply those updates. -- update-manager shows no changelog for various packages https://launchpad.net/bugs/40058 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
