[gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

[Gustavo Felisberto]

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/
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