The "latest release" is an iso file that was cut months ago. For 16.04 LTS that would mean rolling all the way back to April. For 16.10 it's only since October, but that's still a ton of vulnerabilities to reintroduce into your system.
It's not like there's a daily snapshot you can grab, unless you're living dangerously and going onto one of the dev branches.
And you know, this guy's "fix" would also re-introduce the flawed apt package, which likely would already have been fixed. I don't understand why this guy has such a hard time understanding why he's wrong.
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Well then just update the system manually. Get the latest apt package updated first, and then download the rest of the updates.
It's bad if the new releases come out monthly, people need rely heavily on the updater then.
You can always just use a RPM based distro until a new ISO image comes out for debian OS's for example.
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