It seems that you are in a much better position to ask Skype about creating
a repo, than some random user and his family...

Nils
--
The early bird gets the coffee left over from the night before


2010/2/2 Przemysław Kulczycki <email address hidden>

> ** Description changed:
>
>  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.
> +
> + ===================================
> + STOP ASKING ABOUT BRINGING SKYPE BACK TO UBUNTU.
> +
> + Skype is proprietary closed source software so Ubuntu developers can't
> + modify it and don't have access to its source code.
> + If you want something changed about Skype then you should ask the
> + vendor of the Skype application, not Ubuntu.
> + https://support.skype.com/en/support_selection
> + If Skype's vendor wants to have its packages in Ubuntu then it is
> + their responsibility to work on that, not Ubuntu's.
> + Blaming Ubuntu or Medibuntu about not including Skype is just plain
> wrong.
> +
> + Please, DO NOT ADD any more comments about bringing Skype back. The
> decision has been made, period.
> + Go ask Skype about it.
>
> ** Description changed:
>
>  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.
>
>   ===================================
> - STOP ASKING ABOUT BRINGING SKYPE BACK TO UBUNTU.
> + STOP ASKING ABOUT BRINGING SKYPE BACK TO MEDIBUNTU.
>
>  Skype is proprietary closed source software so Ubuntu developers can't
>  modify it and don't have access to its source code.
>  If you want something changed about Skype then you should ask the
>  vendor of the Skype application, not Ubuntu.
>  https://support.skype.com/en/support_selection
>  If Skype's vendor wants to have its packages in Ubuntu then it is
>  their responsibility to work on that, not Ubuntu's.
>  Blaming Ubuntu or Medibuntu about not including Skype is just plain wrong.
>
>  Please, DO NOT ADD any more comments about bringing Skype back. The
> decision has been made, period.
>  Go ask Skype about it.
>
> --
> Move to -staging/remove skype packages
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494564
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> Status in Medibuntu: Fix Released
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> 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.
>
> ===================================
> STOP ASKING ABOUT BRINGING SKYPE BACK TO MEDIBUNTU.
>
> Skype is proprietary closed source software so Ubuntu developers can't
> modify it and don't have access to its source code.
> If you want something changed about Skype then you should ask the
> vendor of the Skype application, not Ubuntu.
> https://support.skype.com/en/support_selection
> If Skype's vendor wants to have its packages in Ubuntu then it is
> their responsibility to work on that, not Ubuntu's.
> Blaming Ubuntu or Medibuntu about not including Skype is just plain wrong.
>
> Please, DO NOT ADD any more comments about bringing Skype back. The
> decision has been made, period.
> Go ask Skype about it.
>
>
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