Updates for universe: are there any?

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at imapmail.org
Sat Jul 16 13:58:38 CDT 2005


Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> Wouter Stomp wrote:
> 
>> I know universe is unsupported. I am just curious if packages get
>> updated when there are problems (of course if there is someone willing
>> to do that). So far I haven't seen any program from universe on my pc
>> being updated so I was just wondering if it happens at all. Couldn't
>> find much information on the wiki about it, but if you can point me to
>> a page where it is explained, that would be great.
> 
> 
> There has been some updates to Hoary's universe since the release 
> according to the packages file on archive.u.c:
> 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
> 

And there also has been some official security update to Hoary's Universe as well:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz

So while it is not officially supported, updates are still occuring.  It is 
the same for Warty.

-- 
Daniel Robitaille




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