package contents is outdated
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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intel-microcode (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The content of the package is not compiled from sources but rather split from the official one distributed by Intel in a single file.
As of today (2016.02.02) the package for Ubuntu 14.04.03 LTS is 2 years old!
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I expect this package to be kept up to date in all supported releases of Ubuntu, not just left behind as any binary (that is compiled) outdated package.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: intel-microcode 2.20140624-
Uname: Linux 4.4.1-040401-
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Feb 2 16:27:17 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-02 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
SourcePackage: intel-microcode
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I can fix this by downloading the package for the current bleeding-edge version for Xenial and install it manually with dpkg. microcode_ 3.20151106. 1_amd64. deb) can be simply pushed into the 14.04 repositories and have the issue fixed.
That package (intel-
In my opinion the same problem applies to AMD CPU microcode.