owncloud updates

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 04:11:49PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Owncloud is a package which doesn't like to work on our 6 monthly
> timetable.  It has many security vulnerabilities and 3rd party php and
> javascript libraries which are often not packaged in older versions of
> Ubuntu.  It's been suggested that the tech board might allow it to be
> updated wholesale to new versions including adding the shipped 3rd party
> libraries to the package as needed, so I've prepared these
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/owncloud/+bug/1079150
> 
> Does the tech board approve of updating these as a SRU?

Is there any hope of having the security problems in the libraries fixed
directly? That would be much nicer; it'd fix anyone using those libraries
beyond just owncloud...

-Kees

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Kees Cook