No, the underlying problem is with dpkg not recognising the .xz compression type used in Oracle's .deb file. This is ALREADY fixed in the 12.04 version, so for from there being "nothing the Ubuntu developers can do", there is - backport the later version of dpkg that supports the .xz file type!
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