[Bug 80697] Re: changelogs.ubuntu.com isn't the right place for 3rd-party packages

[Marius Kotsbak]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 253119 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253119

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 45129
   FFe: update-manager should have per-package  changelog locations (was: uses changelogs.ubuntu.com for all packages)
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 253119
   PPA packages do not show a changelog in update-manager

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Title:
  changelogs.ubuntu.com isn't the right place for 3rd-party packages

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  if i do this to add a new .deb source and install some packages:

  sudo bash <<EOF
  echo deb http://software.jessies.org/debian/ ./ >> /etc/apt/sources.list
  EOF
  wget -O - http://software.jessies.org/debian/software.jessies.org.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
  sudo aptitude update
  sudo aptitude install ~norg.jessies.

  when "Software Updates" finds updates, it always says:

    The list of changes is not available yet.
    Please try again later.

  wondering what i needed to fix on the server to stop this, i used
  Wireshark to see what was going on, and it turns out that "Software
  Updates" is checking changelogs.ubuntu.com like this:

  GET
  /changelogs/pool/main/o/org.jessies.terminator/org.jessies.terminator_4.140.1914/changelog
  HTTP/1.1\r\n

  though, obviously, even though i could put that file on my own server,
  there's nothing i can do about changelogs.ubuntu.com. ideally there
  would be a mechanism for third-party package providers to provide
  change information to be displayed in the UI.

  (checking the source to "UpdateManager.py" confirms what Wireshark
  showed.)

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