Why is it a joke? It has always been a case that Canonical will backport security patches and critical bugfixes, rather than updating the entire package to the

Why is it a joke? It has always been a case that Canonical will backport security patches and critical bugfixes, rather than updating the entire package to the latest upstream version. On the other hand, Ubuntu Backports is community project, and your snarkiness is unwarranted - as long as no one cares enough to backport and keep maintaining the backport, it won't be done.