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by josephcsible 1234 days ago
Security patches for universe used to be "best-effort". Now they're intentionally withholding all of them from everyone who's not subscribed to Pro.
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Would this patch have existed without the Pro program?
I think so. So far, haven't they only cherry-picked existing patches into their packages? Have they written any new patches yet?
Thanks, that explains things a bit better. It sounds like it's better to not use the universe repository at all in that case. I don't suppose I can just switch over to Debian for those packages, can I?