Please somebody remove skype from partner repository, aka "Bug 1280109"

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi ubuntu developers,

I'll keep the question as simple as it is:
skype stopped working because of some protocol updates, and needs an update.

Nobody took care of updating it since 5 months.

Canonical claims that skype is officially supported via partner repository, if this isn't the case anymore, and since skype is a non free tool in my opinion we should update or remove.

Users shouldn't be allowed to install a broken package from an official archive.

BTW there are many bugs against skype, and many of them are easily reproducible and just missing runtime dependencies, I really would like to package a fixed skype version, but the launchpad ppa policy doesn't allow me.

Cheers,

Gianfranco

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