[Bug 824708] Re: aptitude can no longer show changelogs: "Changelog download failed: Download queue destroyed." Please merge the fixed version, 0.6.8, from Debian.

[Jan Henke]

Great that the problem has been fixed in 12.10, but we really really need a SRU here!
Since aptitude is a console based utility I guess most people (like me) are using it on server installation since desktop installations offer a variety of other tools for that purpose.
Viewing the change log for a packet before installing it is one of the core features of aptitude! We need to have the fix as SRU for 12.04.

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Title:
  aptitude can no longer show changelogs: "Changelog download failed:
  Download queue destroyed."  Please merge the fixed version, 0.6.8,
  from Debian.

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “aptitude” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  After update of  aptitude (0.6.4-1ubuntu2) and apt
  (0.8.16~exp5ubuntu4) - aptitude can't download/view changelogs of
  packages.

  aptitude FAIL

  # aptitude changelog python-apt-common
  Err Changelog of python-apt-common
  E: Changelog download failed: Download queue destroyed.
  E: Couldn't find a changelog for python-apt-common

  apt-get OK
  WORKAROUND:
  Use apt-get changelog

  # apt-get changelog python-apt
  Get:1 Changelog for python-apt (http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/p/python-apt/python-apt_0.8.0ubuntu7/changelog) [109 kB]
  Fetched 109 kB in 0s (370 kB/s)

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