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wordpress package

wordpress should be removed from the archives

Bug #1970440 reported by Simon Déziel
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Bug Description

The just released Ubuntu 22.04 ships with wordpress 5.8.3 which is already outdated as 5.8.4 was released addressing 1 bug and 3 security problems, see https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-8-4/#maintenance-updates

It seems that nobody from the community has stepped up to take care of maintaining the packaged version of Wordpress. Having it in unmaintained in the Ubuntu archives is putting unsuspecting users at risk because they are deploying vulnerable software.

I believe users would be better served with a manually installed Wordpress following upstream instructions rather than use the unmaintained version shipped with Ubuntu. As such, it would be nice to remove the package from the archives.

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote :

@ubuntu-archive, would it be possible to add `wordpress` the sync blocklist/blacklist, please?

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