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/ ------------ It's most certainly GNU/Linux, not Linux. Read more at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html . -------------
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