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One of the big issues with the Ubuntu repositories, in particular "universe", is that it's full of old and unmaintained versions.
One of the big issues with the Ubuntu repositories, in particular "universe," is that they're full of old and unmaintained versions. This is a repository where anyone care be a maintainer and it's mainly used for applications that are not supported officially. |
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The OwnCloud people seem to be saying that they don't have time to maintain packages for distros, but I think they should rethink their decision and try to become the package maintainer for major projects such as Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora.
They would ensure quality by doing the work themselves, and they could offer the various versions, one of which I think is more stable (and hence older).
Backporting fixes from newer versions to older ones because the distros don't want to change versions -- I grant that is a problem, but maybe they can get around that. Even Ubuntu LTS releases get browser updates, so maybe OwnCloud can make a case for that kind of situation for their software.
They would ensure quality by doing the work themselves, and they could offer the various versions, one of which I think is more stable (and hence older).
Backporting fixes from newer versions to older ones because the distros don't want to change versions -- I grant that is a problem, but maybe they can get around that. Even Ubuntu LTS releases get browser updates, so maybe OwnCloud can make a case for that kind of situation for their software.
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"One of the big issues with the Ubuntu repositories, in particular "universe", is that it's full of old and unmaintained versions."