When updating from a ppa description says "Failed to detect distribution"

[Karlo Jež]

Changes tab in Update Manager says "Failed to detect distribution" when updating a package from a ppa in Ubuntu 9.04.
This does not happen with package updates from Ubuntu repositories.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Add a ppa to sources.list which contains a newer version of an installed program, e.g. transmissionbt
2. Check for updates
3. Look at changes tab in description of update. Instead of a changelog there is the 'failed to detect..' text

I don't know if this is a bug in update manager, apt or launchpad. I discovered it in update manager - so I'm putting the bug report here.

This bug does not affect the update process, the only thing missing is the changelog.

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks again for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

This happens for me as well, I guess I shall Confirm the upstream task.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) reached EOL on October 23, 2010.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please either a) upgrade and test or b) increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

If you manage to reproduce this, please also post the output of the terminal command "lsb_release -c -s" without the quotes.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
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