System update corrupted system

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 18:48:04 -0400, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
>You can sign up to receive the National Weather Service from the US 
>government for the area you live in--or any area you may be interested
>in--my area is Rocky Point, NY, on Long Island, and the URL I use is
>https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.95222464935049&lon=-72.93118025638873#.YM0hyCUpCV5
>So you can see how it works. Put in your own location. Simple enough,
>and free, as you requested. --doug

This wouldn't fix the weather plugin of a panel. As already pointed out,
1. I fixed it by building an updated package myself and 2. 16.04 is end
of standard support, that's more or less equal to end of life.

My point is, that a panel can easily break even when using an Ubuntu
LTS, or the version provided by upstream is buggy and Ubuntu will never
fix it during an LTS release cycle.

I'm using Ubuntu and Arch Linux. Arch is a rolling release and even
while it sometimes is required to temporarily build a package with a fix
myself, too, it's not the final solution, while for Ubuntu LTS releases
it is the only solution to fix packages myself.

https://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/916/

https://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/751/

Let alone that webkitgtk2 was never removed and became a serious
security risk for 16.04 LTS, at least for those users who aren't aware
of such issues.

The "universe" repository isn't maintained by Canonical, it is more ore
less good or bad maintained by the community.

"Popular or well supported pieces of software will move from
universe into main if they are backed by maintainers willing to meet
the standards set by the Ubuntu team."

This means, that a lot of popular software has never made it into
"main".

The OP is using software from "universe", too.