From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HyVsh-00068g-8N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:39:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5DGcToL015263; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:38:29 GMT Received: from www.activespacetech.com ([212.18.170.241]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5DGaY24013060 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:36:35 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.activespacetech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00493292C11 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:36:33 +0100 (WEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at activespacetech.com Received: from www.activespacetech.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.activespacetech.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ckiXsPQqnGKF for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:36:29 +0100 (WEST) Received: from [10.60.30.13] (unknown [10.60.30.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.activespacetech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E008B292C10 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:36:28 +0100 (WEST) Message-ID: <46701D06.5080302@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:36:22 +0100 From: Gustavo Felisberto User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070607) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2F546CE7F6BE975FB4E8BC30" X-Archives-Salt: 779a74ea-35c1-4057-a244-1b3dca8962f6 X-Archives-Hash: 30e9402beedd2ee284bcf985e9c62b07 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2F546CE7F6BE975FB4E8BC30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? --=20 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 . ------------- --------------enig2F546CE7F6BE975FB4E8BC30 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGcB0KDysutLny1SoRAvW6AJ9BBpq68iN6KT3PrAvSKgSIfwosBACgy9K/ x5fSJ53/GMjA8trJ9D/GlIo= =66Vf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2F546CE7F6BE975FB4E8BC30-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list