Well, they didn't upgrade to the latest available version in jaunty, karmic, lucid or maverick. What makes you think Canonical would bother to do that for natty? Joking aside, I think it's pretty ridiculous that yesterday was the 2nd birthday of the upstream version of mdadm in Ubuntu while piles of cool features have been implemented in upstream since that... What other important package in main has suffered from two years of bit rot?
Well, they didn't upgrade to the latest available version in jaunty, karmic, lucid or maverick. What makes you think Canonical would bother to do that for natty? Joking aside, I think it's pretty ridiculous that yesterday was the 2nd birthday of the upstream version of mdadm in Ubuntu while piles of cool features have been implemented in upstream since that... What other important package in main has suffered from two years of bit rot?