<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Technically, those people packaged it for Debian. Ubuntu just pulls in everything from Debian and calls it "universe." <br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>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."<br><br></div>Darcy.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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