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 <[email protected]> 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 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > 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. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/494564/+subscribe -- Move to -staging/remove skype packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494564 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Medibuntu Packaging Team, which is the registrant for Medibuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~medibuntu-maintainers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~medibuntu-maintainers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
