Comment 4 for bug 1970194

@Jan, indeed before replying to you I opened https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wordpress/+bug/1970440 ;)

@Paul, I am assuming you are referring to the "not well maintained" part of my comment so let me clarify. Ubuntu being a "frozen distro" (package versions are normally set in stone at release time), keeping up with Wordpress releases would be very hard. Someone from the community would need to backport patches or ask for a Minor Release Exception and ship newer versions.

That's a lot of effort to put in and it seems nobody from the community has stepped up to do it. I can't blame anyone as I wouldn't be ready to make such commitment myself. It's just unfortunate because the community would benefit from such effort.

That said, what's in the archive ATM is not something I'd recommend a friend to deploy due to the security risks, hence my suggestion to Jan to go with a manual install.