"About Ubuntu" does not show currently installed distribution version number or information

[frizzle21]

Binary package hint: yelp

The menu item [System] -> [About Ubuntu] does not show the version number or distribution information of the currently installed flavour or version of Ubuntu... that is kind of a setback to find out, when one is trying to make sure or to upgrade..

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-5-generic i686

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Confirmed by duplicate.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

This bug seems to only have popped up in Intrepid, think we can get this into intrepid-updates? I'll check for Jaunty as well, and nominate it if it hasn't been set there. Perhaps we can them nominate it for the next alpha release?

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

In Jaunty it at least shows Intrepid Ibex name and version with release date. In Intrepid it shows
"Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu - the - released in ."
Using latest updates (no -proposed).
I won't nominate for Jaunty yet.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Marking as duplicate of bug 303578 as that bug has a bit more information on it.