[kwlug-disc] More news on ownCloud

[Darcy Casselman]

Technically, those people packaged it for Debian.  Ubuntu just pulls in
everything from Debian and calls it "universe."

I ran into this years ago when I was self-hosting Wordpress.  Eclipse is
something like version 3.8 in the repos when 4.4 is current.  It'd be nice
if someone was actually maintaining crap in universe, but too frequently it
just languishes.

That said, this is The Way It's Always Been.  Ubuntu explicitly doesn't
maintain universe.  It's right there in the description.  "Community
maintained software, i.e. not officially supported software."

Darcy.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

> Of course, it isn't just ownCloud. Nobody knows how many other vulnerable
> packages exist in Universe where the packagers have abandoned the software
> and the developers haven't taken the responsible step of requesting its
> removal.
>
> This article seems particularly biased against ownCloud. It neglects to
> mention that the only supported repository is the SUSE build servers (which
> is what I demonstrated in my presentation), and that other people took it
> upon themselves to package it for Ubuntu and then failed to maintain it.
>
> --Bob.
>
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