[needs-packaging] Opera

[Daniel Hendrycks]

[needs-packaging] Opera
Opera is a web browser with everything you need and more built in and there is no need for extensions. (Extensions slow things down and make apps insecure) On top of having the features you want Opera has the best security record (seriously look it up (go to favbrowser.com, you will see Firefox did the worst on the latest test in the weekly recap)) and it is fast (they are currently developing a new JS engine too. Opera still somehow remains lightweight to, it runs on new computers to ones that are 10 years old. Opera also innovates, it has groundbreaking features first; e.g. Opera Turbo (a compression engine that will speed up browsing on slow networks)

URL: http://opera.com/
Liscense: Proprietary
Notes: Comes in stable and pre-release (Labs, Snapshots, Betas, RCs) versions

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

There is already an Ubuntu package for Opera:
http://deb.opera.com/

What is needed is for the package to be added to the Software Center.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

For the package to be added to software center, it either has to be added by the developers of the software, or it has to be included in the Ubuntu repositories. Being proprietary, I think the latter is out of discussion, so the opera developers should contact Canonical for inclusion, see http://askubuntu.com/questions/18799/how-to-include-applications-software-in-canonical-partners-repo and http://www.canonical.com/engineering-services/certification/application-packaging. So as far as I see, we can only ask the opera people to contact canonical, there's no other way to get Opera in software center, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[Łukasz Jagielski (ljagielski)]

Currently, opera browser packages have quite permissive license in terms of redistribution, wouldn't this make them good candidates for multiverse repository? Please take look at copyright of opera-stable package in attachment or here https://gist.github.com/anonymous/25da70e772e136aaa1a0

[Odin Hørthe Omdal (velmont)]

We'd be thrilled to be in multiverse. The license was in fact written in such a way to allow that. E.g. Arch Linux has a opera in their standard repository (not only AUR, but in the 'community' repo).