owncloud updates

[Mark Shuttleworth]

For items which are not yet well packaged, or not useful as shared
dependencies for other projects, it may be worth just charming them.
That leaves quite a bit more flexibility.

Mark

On 04/22/2013 11:34 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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
>