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(Get the code!)
@LocutusOfBorg:
Not that I am aware of.
@aidanjt
> Instead you brushed the problem under the carpet, and now nobody will
> have maintained software. Good going.
I asked them to add a conflict with our skype-common package, to avoid the common bug explained above. They never added it...
> If you couldn't be bothered maintaining a package, you should
> have thrown out a feeler for someone else to take up the mantle,
> instead of dishing out an 'I don't like this, so tough luck' bug.
Anyone can recreate a skype package, file a bug report and propose it for inclusion. But the usual behavior (even in Ubuntu) is rather: "a person works for its inclusion and then vanishes". That's why I'm more inclined to drop this kind of packages.
Since nobody proposed for four months (it was removed in december), I think that everyone is happy with the package on the official website (or whatever package one can find).
> I thought Medibuntu stood for "Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In
> Ubuntu".
Well, actually, Medibuntu was "invented" first, and then we thought it could be great if it were an acronym, and we tried to find a word matching each letter (I'm not actually very proud of the result :p).
> [...] there's already a script for installing libdvdcss in libdvdread
It downloads the package from our repository. If it fails, it downloads the source code and builds the library.
@mzc
> Sounds like a bug#1 regression to me:(
You should ask Canonical to include Skype in the "partner" repository. This is what happened for Adobe Reader, and we removed it from Medibuntu, and everyone is happy now.