aptitude-gtk is long gone. Even Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise has the aptitude source package version (0.6.6-1 respectively 0.6.6-1ubuntu1) with which the aptitude-gtk binary package was dropped.
And in case this issue was also present with aptitude-curses (which remained), this issue is at least fixed with Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS Xenial: → aptitude changelog aptitude | head -2 Get: Changelog of aptitude aptitude (0.7.4-2ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=high Hence closing. ** Changed in: aptitude (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604750 Title: aptitude-gtk will not display Ubuntu changelogs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/604750/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs