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[Lionel Le Folgoc <lionel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@LocutusOfBorg:

Not that I am aware of.

@aidanjt

> Instead you brushed the problem under the carpet, and now nobody will
> have maintained software. Good going.

I asked them to add a conflict with our skype-common package, to avoid
the common bug explained above. They never added it...

> If you couldn't be bothered maintaining a package, you should
> have thrown out a feeler for someone else to take up the mantle, 
> instead of dishing out an 'I don't like this, so tough luck' bug.

Anyone can recreate a skype package, file a bug report and propose it
for inclusion. But the usual behavior (even in Ubuntu) is rather: "a
person works for its inclusion and then vanishes". That's why I'm more
inclined to drop this kind of packages.

Since nobody proposed for four months (it was removed in december), I
think that everyone is happy with the package on the official website
(or whatever package one can find).

> I thought Medibuntu stood for "Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In
> Ubuntu".

Well, actually, Medibuntu was "invented" first, and then we thought it
could be great if it were an acronym, and we tried to find a word
matching each letter (I'm not actually very proud of the result :p).

> [...] there's already a script for installing libdvdcss in libdvdread

It downloads the package from our repository. If it fails, it downloads
the source code and builds the library.

@mzc

> Sounds like a bug#1 regression to me:(

You should ask Canonical to include Skype in the "partner" repository.
This is what happened for Adobe Reader, and we removed it from
Medibuntu, and everyone is happy now.

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