Re: No changelogs for all 50+ package updates

[Chris Burkhardt <chris@mretc.net>]

Slim Joe wrote:
> For the past four or five days I cannot see or download
> the changelogs for any of the packages which the
> Gnome Update Manager is supposed to install. A check
> with synaptic confirms the problem. When I choose
> \Package\Download_Changelog I get an error like:
> 
> Failed to fetch the changelog for [*]
> URI was: http://packages.debian.org/[*]/changelog
> 
> Pasting the "changelog" URL into a browser leads to a
> "404 Not Found" error. Is this a known problem? Or is
> it just a problem with my apt setup.
> 
> apt 0.7.14+b1
> apt-utils 0.7.14+b1
> aptitude 0.4.11.8-1
> python-apt 0.7.7.1
> synaptic 0.62.1

I'm experiencing the same thing (see also the recent post here with subject
"Changelog broken on Lenny?"). I read a slashdot comment complaining about it
too. I haven't heard what the problem is yet.

- Chris