Comment 3 for bug 222533

> Hi,
>
> At the beginning of the bug report, you spoke of Synaptic, but the screenshot seems to be from update-manager (Synaptic lists the package versions, update-manager doesn't iirc).

Yes, my fault. This bug belongs to update-manager.

But, you're wrong, update-manager used to show the package
versions. And also, if you expand the 'Description of
update' you'd notice that most updates (except those from
medibuntu) carry the corresponding changelog entries for
this update.

> The description of the package doesn't include its version because it doesn't actually "describe" the package, and it's no use for someone who wants to know what the package installs.

Yes the longer detailed description is not the right place
for the package version, but this information should be
shown somewhere in update-manager.

> The changelogs are available at http://www.medibuntu.org/changelogs/
> For ffmpeg, it's http://www.medibuntu.org/changelogs/pool/free/f/ffmpeg/current.hardy/changelog
>
> Anyway, I agree that the changelogs aren't very visible (and that we
> should set up a front-end like packages.ubuntu.com).
>

This is OK, but is not related with the issue with
update-manager.

Knowing to which version you're updating to and what changes
or bug fixes are included in the new version are things that
should be shown by update-manager.

Because this information is available for other ubuntu
updates, I assumed it was a problem with the medibuntu
packages. I may be wrong.

Fernan