Cacti Update

[J Fernyhough]

On 17/12/15 18:49, FoxNET Support wrote:
>> Le 17 déc. 2015 à 19:47, Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> Jacob Rodriguez:
>>> When will Cacti be updated from 0.8.8b to the current 0.8.8f in your
>>> packages?
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianImportFreeze:
>> Syncs happen from Debian unstable all the time.
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule:
>> February 18th: Debian import freeze
>>
>> https://packages.debian.org/sid/cacti
>> cacti (0.8.8f+ds1-3)
>>
>>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cacti
>
>

Taking an educated guess and trying to answer the real question, given
Cacti had a security update very recently: the Cacti package in Ubuntu
is in 'universe' [1]. This means Ubuntu won't necessarily provide
updates, even for security issues, especially for older releases (even LTS).

You can, of course, backport the package yourself, or use the package
from a newer release (assuming its libraries and dependencies will allow
it).

The Cacti package for Trusty did get a security update on 2015-17-01
[2]. As for when another release might happen - see above... :(

J

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty-updates/cacti
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cacti/0.8.8b+dfsg-5ubuntu0.1