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[mzc <mzcariaga@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for clearing up the responsibilities and roles of canonical and
ubuntu developers.  It has changed my perception of medibuntu. But the
problem is still not solved, it makes sense that commercial free
software like skype should be in canonical's repository(with
cooperation/approval of skype). Having that said canonical should make
more effort in making this happen. The point is skype has at least
10million users, and it has always been a feature in several other gnu/
linux distros. At least give ubuntu users the choice to install such
software in the most convenient way.


On Jan 22, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Lionel Le Folgoc <lionel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Ubuntu developers mostly don't care of Skype ; some Canonical
> employees
> probably (the ones that maintain Canonical's partner repository). I
> don't know why Skype isn't in Canonical's partner repository, you
> should
> ask them.
>
> --
> Move to -staging/remove skype packages
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494564
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> Status in Medibuntu: Fix Released
> Status in Medibuntu hardy series: Fix Released
> Status in Medibuntu intrepid series: Fix Released
> Status in Medibuntu jaunty series: Fix Released
> Status in Medibuntu karmic series: Fix Released
> Status in Medibuntu lucid series: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> It is a bit problematic to keep our skype packages, as skype-common
> conflicts with the package distributed on skype.com, and there's no
> easy way for us to avoid that (except by merging back skype-common
> in skype and skype-static, which is a bit painful). After some
> discussion on irc with a skype dev, I think the best proposition is
> to stop distributing them, as they are apparently going to provide
> i386 & amd64 & skype-static packages on skype.com.
>
> For the moment, I'm going to move them to -staging, and after
> packages are released on skype.com, drop them completely.
>
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