Comment 26 for bug 253119

On 2008-08-04, “TJ” added this patch for displaying PPA changelogs to bug 254552. Unfortunately, three days later, that report was marked as a duplicate of this one. All else being equal, it’s appropriate to mark a newer report as a duplicate of an older one — but not where the newer one is the only one with a patch. Because patches aren’t transferred from duplicates (bug 509398), this patch was forgotten.

The update-manager code has changed a lot since 2008, especially in switching from GTK2 to GTK3, and in implementing a UI redesign. So it’s unlikely that the patch still applies. But if you want to fix the bug, it’s probably still a useful starting point. There is no “they” who “are not going to fix it”. If you want it fixed, and can’t do it yourself, find someone who can. Commenting in this bug report is the worst possible way of doing that, because everyone subscribed already knows it exists.