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update-manager package

Changelogs do not show up for PPA's and show wrong url

Bug #354740 reported by Bryan
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I have a ppa I created for Veusz. Is there some way to get my changelog to show up in update manager or is this feature strictly for official packages? Is there somewhere I should put my changelog to make it available of update manager?

Also, the link in update manager is broken. I have noticed tis behavior with other ppa's as well. It seems like the link ought to work at least. Should I report a bug against update manager?

Here's the output I get from Update Manager:

The list of changes is not available yet.

Please use http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/veusz/1.3.924-0svn/+changelog
until the changes become available or try again later.

William Grant (wgrant)
affects: ubuntu → update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

The message is indeed pretty misleading, I fixed that in bzr, its still not great, but better. As for displaying changelogs in bzr, there is a whishlist bug about this open already, but its not done for jaunty. Sorry for that.

summary: - Changelogs do not show up for PPA's
+ Changelogs do not show up for PPA's and show wrong url
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.111.2

---------------
update-manager (1:0.111.2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * UpdateManager/Core/MyCache.py:
    - when calculating what category a update should be put in,
      make sure that candidate versions for "other updates" always
      end up there
    - do not try to get changelogs for packages that do not have
      a ubuntu origin (LP: #354740)
  * DistUpgrade/removal_blacklist.cfg:
    - add skype to the removal blacklist (thanks to Nick Lally)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:28:34 +0200

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Bela Lubkin (filbo) wrote :

Open issues with update-manager vs. changelogs:

- delay between posting of an update & posting of its changelog (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/40058/comments/65 "there is gap of up to 4h until the changelogs are available") -- needs server-side solution?

- the URL generated during this gap, "http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/[pkg stuff]/+changelog, redirects to "https://..." so should probably be generated as "https:"

- no mechanism for any repository other than official Ubuntu to host changelogs

I attempted to survey open update-manager bugs to see which of these were currently alive, and got lost in a tangle of duplicates etc. Pls. ping me if I should raise any of these (I didn't see a report of the "https redirect" issue but I might have missed it + it might not be worth considering since the redirect does work)

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