Comment 13 for bug 297789

@Nikola M: of course one can download the source, the question is: will it compile gracefully? I am sure you're aware of the dependency chains that have to be satisfied in order to have a stable system. Sometimes it's just not possible to have a newer version of software X without updating chains of core dependencies. Actually, this is what the Ubuntu team is doing every 6 months.

In the case of this package, critical vulnerabilities were not patched for a significant amount of time because nobody bothered to compile the newer upstream sources. Of course, the package maintainer is not to blame, he's probably not getting paid to do it. But while issues like this are not the core developer's fault, they are Ubuntu's problem.

Please, do not lecture me on the advantages of package management systems, I am very well aware of them, I am more concerned about the disadvantages. Also, try to write "Windows", not "windblows", alternate Linux fanboish spellings make you look bad.

I really hope the fix released for this bug solved the problem.