Ubuntu – Does Ubuntu import the Universe repository from Debian

Out of curiosity, I just installed apt-mirror and configured it to mirror maverick, maverick-security, and maverick-updates (i386 only). It reported:

68.6 GiB will be downloaded into archive.

This question interests me, and I'm trying to get another four reputation points, so I can upvote a useful answer I recently found here on ask Ubuntu... so I tried to find the answer:

The ones who maintain "Universe" are the Masters of the Universe. On their mailing list there was a discussion on security updates for Drupal, in August 2014. One answer worth reading contained "This is a fundamental difference between main and universe" and "users can always opt to not install universe packages". So if this information is correct it pretty much answers your question, I would say.

Probably Debian has faster security updates over its whole set of packages, than Ubuntu has over it's Universe branch... so you might consider using that distribution instead, if you need (server) programs not included in Ubuntu "Main".