No active links in 'Changes'

[Doug McMahon]

The new 'Software Updater' doesn't provide any active links to a changelog which the previous update manager did when the changelogs could be directly displayed, (Which is all the time recently

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.162
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-3.8-generic 3.4.0
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.1.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 5 14:22:10 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
 com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1338848708
 com.ubuntu.update-manager show-details true
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 482
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 768
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120603)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Could you please start update-manager from the terminal and see if hovering the mouse over the changelog viewer prints an exception? I guess this might be a duplicate of bug #1009859, if it happens to you too.
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[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Close enough, (maybe

~$ update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/UpdateManager/ChangelogViewer.py", line 185, in on_insert_text
    self.tag_link(match_start, match_end, url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/UpdateManager/ChangelogViewer.py", line 112, in tag_link
    tag.set_data("url", url)
AttributeError: 'TextTag' object has no attribute 'set_data'