Update Ubuntu packages

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:02:03AM +0300, Nicholas Guriev wrote:
> On Пн, 2021-09-13 at 08:35 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > - Backports.  These are available to all users of the stable release, but
> >   are opt-in; users must specifically choose to install the package from the
> >   backports repository, or by default they will see the older version that
> >   was available at the time of the stable release.  You should be able to
> >   work directly with the Ubuntu Backports team to get a backport done (which
> >   has a baseline policy of: take the newer version of the package from the
> >   latest Ubuntu release, and publish it for the earlier release) without
> >   needing any sort of upload sponsorship by an Ubuntu Developer.

> Nowadays backports are almost died in Ubuntu. For example, Ubuntu Focal
> Backports offer only three(!) standalone software (Cockpit, Ibus-typing-
> booster, and some closely related disk management utilities).

>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal-backports/allpackages

> Too little benefits of using the repository.

Please see the recent discussions about rebootstrapping the backports team.

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-August/041587.html

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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