Comment 44 for bug 494564

> It is a bit problematic to keep our skype packages, as skype-common conflicts with the package distributed on skype.com.
How is this a problem? Why would someone add medibuntu, then install skype from the medibuntu repo, then download and install skype from the skype website?

> 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.
I have crazy notion, why not get the skype devs to use /opt like they're suppose to? Conflict resolved, and sane people get to have a maintained software installation, and less mess on their vfs.

> STOP ASKING ABOUT BRINGING SKYPE BACK TO MEDIBUNTU.
Why? Practically everyone wants it back.

> 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.
Oh, well, in that case, you better remove the following closed source packages as well:
alsa-firmware
gizmo5? (seems to have been eaten by google anyway)
googleearth-data
googleearth
realplayer
w32codecs
w64codecs

Oh wait, there goes the entire point of medibuntu. :roll:

> Please, DO NOT ADD any more comments about bringing Skype back. The decision has been made, period.
The decision was in error.