[Bug 383715] Re: When updating from a ppa description says "Failed to detect distribution"

[Robert Roth]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) reached EOL on October 23, 2010.
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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.

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

Status in Update Manager:
  Incomplete
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  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.

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