No IPv6 address for changelogs.ubuntu.com

[MegaBrutal]

Release upgrade with do-release-upgrade is impossible on IPv6-only hosts, as changelogs.ubuntu.com has no IPv6 address.

# do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
No new release found

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

$ cat /etc/update-manager/meta-release
# default location for the meta-release file

[METARELEASE]
URI = http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release
URI_LTS = http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
URI_UNSTABLE_POSTFIX = -development
URI_PROPOSED_POSTFIX = -proposed

$ ping6 -c 5 changelogs.ubuntu.com
unknown host

$ host changelogs.ubuntu.com
changelogs.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.95.36

This could probably be worked around by setting a suitable mirror in /etc/update-manager/meta-release, but I think there is a reason why the release upgrader doesn't use the repo mirrors in the first place.

I have no idea who's in authority for this, but it would be best if Canonical would add an IPv6 address to changelogs.ubuntu.com.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I've submitted an RT ticket with Canonical's IS department regarding this, the number is 75640.

[MegaBrutal (qbu6to)]

Just out of curiosity, is there a way to track that ticket you mentioned at Canonical, or is that tracking system private?

By the way, I've found a duplicate of this report here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/776038

[Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)]

changelogs.ubuntu.com is now reachable via IPv6.