[Bug 2978] Review request: skype - Skype Messaging and Telephony Client

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2978

--- Comment #9 from Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> 2013-10-04 09:19:50 CEST ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Hi, Simone Caronni good to see you around :)

Nice to see you too :)
Lots of friends here! :D

> you may get so ideas from russianfedora
> 
> https://github.com/RussianFedora/skype
> http://koji.russianfedora.ru/koji/packageinfo?packageID=97

I've looked at the Russian Fedora package and I think it's horrible. There are
a few things that I really don't like:

- They use different sources for different distribution
- In the case of Fedora they download the rpm and unpack it (why not use the
tarball already?)
- They do a lot of mangling on desktop files etc. which is really not needed,
as rpmlint does not complain
- They create a fake libtiff link, and end up packaging the %_docdir with the
version in it; which breaks the unversioned docdir in Fedora 20:

%doc %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
%{_bindir}/%{name}
%{_bindir}/%{name}-bin
%{_libdir}/libtiff.so.4

The main problem though is that this does not solve the redistribution
licensing issue..

The official package is not in bad shape at all and a wrapper is needed only
for the environment variable as in comment #4. So any idea on the matter? Close
the review at all? Ship the wrapper only for the variable and the automatic
download of the official rpm?

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