Changelog no longer available (except for link) for all updates with a changelog

[Christopher Kyle Horton]

Up until a week or so ago, updates used to come with descriptions of their changes in the "Description of update" box. Now, all updates that support changelogs say instead "The list of changes is not available yet." and provide a (working) web link to an online page describing the changes. The changelog apparently can't be retrieved no matter how long I let the updates sit before installing them.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[matsonfamily (david-matsonfamily)]

I don't think that this is a duplicate of bug #1001609, as that seems to be a missing changelog from one or some packages, and this is from ALL updates. I'm also having this issue on a 12.04 Ubuntu, where *every* update says this text, but the link always works. I have the problem at work, but my home computer doesn't.

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

I'm not sure if I agree or not. Can someone explain why this is a duplicate? I'd like to know more about how the problems in both reports are connected enough to be considered the same.

[Alex Selby (launchpad-archduke)]

Bug #1001609 has been clarified to refer to all updates, so I think this bug is probably a genuine duplicate.

Don't be confused by the two different kinds of web addresses. update-manager uses http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/ (currently not working) internally to fetch changelogs, but displays web addresses at http://launchpad.net (currently working) for the user to click on.