-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jan Kundrát wrote: > Abhay Kedia wrote: >> I am involved in this thread since its very beginning but looks like I am >> not >> being able to understand the problems. Would you please be kind enough to >> enumerate the issues discussed in this thread that warrant complete removal >> of Skype (rather than masking it) from the tree? > > We have a policy that ebuilds should be in the tree for at least 30 days > before we mark them stable. Skype uses funny license that forbids us to > mirror the "installer file". Skype wants to remove that older file from > their mirrors in less than 30 days after they release a new version. > > Current Gentoo "stable" would be unistallable. New version can't be > marked as stable because it won't have been properly tested yet. > > Users will see that stuff that used to work for them is broken now. > That's a regression that could have been avoided if Skype wasn't marked > stable. > > It could be interesting to evaluate a new rule "fetch/mirror restricted > package can't be marked stable" :).
I believe common sense and per-package experience is better than such general rules :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGco4HtbrAj05h3oQRAi+rAJ92CyJ80p8JXWpIM1mJCnMrCFSXQQCgn6Ej JSWpRQFMvCCL6LM3MR9FEjQ= =sc5A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
