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 1HzBVC-00058p-KF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:06:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5FD5340029123; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:05:03 GMT Received: from slimak.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5FD35cd026865 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:03:06 GMT Received: (qmail 5292 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jun 2007 13:03:04 -0000 Received: from r141.net.upc.cz (HELO ?192.168.1.1?) (62.24.83.141) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 15 Jun 2007 13:03:04 -0000 Message-ID: <46728E08.8020200@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:03:04 +0200 From: Vlastimil Babka User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070509) 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: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree References: <46701D06.5080302@gentoo.org> <200706142041.37787.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> <4671B6F8.9070507@gentoo.org> <200706151001.17924.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> <467274D2.3080101@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <467274D2.3080101@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 OpenPGP: id=4E61DE84; url=subkeys.pgp.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l5FD5362029123 X-Archives-Salt: 32f81207-9157-43a4-8f61-6d759981d49d X-Archives-Hash: 8440a077669329ec002689b1c57188f8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jan Kundr=E1t wrote: > Abhay Kedia wrote: >> I am involved in this thread since its very beginning but looks like I= am not=20 >> being able to understand the problems. Would you please be kind enough= to=20 >> enumerate the issues discussed in this thread that warrant complete re= moval=20 >> of Skype (rather than masking it) from the tree? >=20 > We have a policy that ebuilds should be in the tree for at least 30 day= s > before we mark them stable. Skype uses funny license that forbids us to > mirror the "installer file". Skype wants to remove that older file from > their mirrors in less than 30 days after they release a new version. >=20 > Current Gentoo "stable" would be unistallable. New version can't be > marked as stable because it won't have been properly tested yet. >=20 > Users will see that stuff that used to work for them is broken now. > That's a regression that could have been avoided if Skype wasn't marked > stable. >=20 > It could be interesting to evaluate a new rule "fetch/mirror restricted > package can't be marked stable" :). I believe common sense and per-package experience is better than such general rules :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGco4HtbrAj05h3oQRAi+rAJ92CyJ80p8JXWpIM1mJCnMrCFSXQQCgn6Ej JSWpRQFMvCCL6LM3MR9FEjQ=3D =3Dsc5A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list