[Trisquel-users] Re : Is the Universe and Main distinction meaningful in Trisquel?

[mtlben]

Actually, I was glad to see that packages were separated between main and  
universe in Trisquel 7, as this is not the case in Trisquel 6, and I believe  
it is an important and significant distinction.  My understanding is that  
Canonical only supports main packages for 5 years, ans lets the community  
take care of the packages in universe.  So as far as security is concerned,  
there is no guarantee that packages from the universe branch will be patched  
or supported adequately, whereas you have that 5-year guarantee for packages  
from main. Someone please correct me if I am mistaken :).

Case in point, the owncloud team recently asked Ubuntu maintainers to remove  
owncloud from the Ubuntu repositories, as it was a universe package and  
nobodu was maintaining it.  The owncloud team didn't want people to run and  
insecure version, when the latest stable version is available through a ppa.