On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:36:22PM +0100, Gustavo Felisberto wrote: > A little background info: Right now there are three versions of > net-im/skype in the tree: > > 1 - the 1.2 series (with a stable version) > 2- the 1.3 series also with a stable version > 3- the 1.4 series with a ~/hardmask version > > Also the skype license states that we cannot mirror it's files (this > will be need later) > > The 1.4 series will have a version released soon that skype wants to > become the standard stable version, it has many new features and better > audio quality. > > I as Gentoo Dev and Skype Betatester was informed that starting on June > 19th Skype will no longer provide downloads for the 1.2 and 1.3 version, > and that means that 1.4 will be released some time before. For Gentoo > that means that starting from the 19th users on the stable profile will > not be able to install skype as no files will be available from upstream. > > So the thing is, as soon as Skype releases the 1.4 stable version I'm > going to have it in tree and we need to have it tested ASAP on the > stable profile. My thing is with the time between, we will have 5 days > tops or users will not be able to install. > > Suggestions: > 1- in the 19th remove skype < 1.4 from the tree > 2- Make < 1.4 ebuilds "empty" and leave them on the tree and ewarn the > users to use the unstable skype > > > The first option will trigger portage errors and prompt users to open > bugs until we have a stable 1.4, the second gives us a chance to explain > the issue. > > Any alternatives? > > -- > Gustavo Felisberto > (HumpBack) > Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~humpback > Blog: http://blog.felisberto.net/ > ------------ > It's most certainly GNU/Linux, not Linux. Read more at > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html . > ------------- > > Let's remove it from portage. why should we use it? I run it for a bit I can say it's awful... it is closed-source, is not it? so I think it's better not to install it...
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