Comment 19 for bug 40058

re hacks:
The only thing that I would really like is a command line option (or gconf key) that make update-manager spit out the URLs of changelogs that update-manager is trying to get (ideally one URL per line) on stdout. That would save be grovelling through squid logs...

re results of update-manager_0.42.2ubuntu17:
A massive improvement on the new system (I'm still away from the old system so I'll be a few days before I can report on the results there). The only packages without changelogs now are
libnspr4
libnss3
linux-386 (although this is new)

There is a new problem with regard to too much of the changelog being shown on packages which seem to have a 1: prefix in their version number but I'm going to spin that off as a Bug #45566