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On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:36:22PM +0100, Gustavo Felisberto wrote: |
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> A little background info: Right now there are three versions of |
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> net-im/skype in the tree: |
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> 1 - the 1.2 series (with a stable version) |
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> 2- the 1.3 series also with a stable version |
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> 3- the 1.4 series with a ~/hardmask version |
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> Also the skype license states that we cannot mirror it's files (this |
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> will be need later) |
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> The 1.4 series will have a version released soon that skype wants to |
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> become the standard stable version, it has many new features and better |
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> audio quality. |
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> I as Gentoo Dev and Skype Betatester was informed that starting on June |
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> 19th Skype will no longer provide downloads for the 1.2 and 1.3 version, |
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> and that means that 1.4 will be released some time before. For Gentoo |
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> that means that starting from the 19th users on the stable profile will |
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> not be able to install skype as no files will be available from upstream. |
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> So the thing is, as soon as Skype releases the 1.4 stable version I'm |
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> going to have it in tree and we need to have it tested ASAP on the |
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> stable profile. My thing is with the time between, we will have 5 days |
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> tops or users will not be able to install. |
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> Suggestions: |
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> 1- in the 19th remove skype < 1.4 from the tree |
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> 2- Make < 1.4 ebuilds "empty" and leave them on the tree and ewarn the |
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> users to use the unstable skype |
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> The first option will trigger portage errors and prompt users to open |
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> bugs until we have a stable 1.4, the second gives us a chance to explain |
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> the issue. |
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> Any alternatives? |
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> -- |
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> Gustavo Felisberto |
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> (HumpBack) |
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> Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~humpback |
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> Blog: http://blog.felisberto.net/ |
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> It's most certainly GNU/Linux, not Linux. Read more at |
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> http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html . |
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Let's remove it from portage. why should we use it? I run it for a bit I |
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can say it's awful... it is closed-source, is not it? so I think it's |
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better not to install it... |
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