On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Marco Cimmino <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Ultimately, I think you'd need two packages - one skype package that
> is arch-independent so that you always end up with a 'skype' package
> installed, and a skype-bin which installs the i386 binaries
>
> I guess I haven't been clear enough, but Skype is NOT interested in
> creating TWO packages only to workaround this problem.

Sorry Marco - I do understand that you're not interested in creating
two packages, I was only commenting that we need to ask someone who
may know other solutions, as I can't see how it could work without
that. I've already contacted Steve, and am waiting to hear back from
him.

>  Plus this mean on
> skype.com we would need to make a i386 and an amd64 packages, both will
> pull a THIRD package i386, 3 packages to fix a simple usability problem
> on USC? I think is too much. If there is something in the deb file we
> can add to avoid this I am more than happy to do so, but releasing 3
> packages only for Ubuntu doesn't seem something we want to do.

Yes, I totally understand that. Let's see what Steve says.

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  Skype is hidden under "technical items" in USC when installed from deb
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