On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 06:13:07PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Package: slack
> Version: 0.15.2-7
> 
> Slack (the popular proprietary collaboration app and service) ships a
> .deb that by default adds its own apt repository.[1] Unfortunately,
> they created a naming conflict (perhaps unknowingly). Since then, it
> looks like they've renamed their package to slack-desktop but kept the
> old slack package as a transitional package, apparently about 9 months
> ago.[2]
> 
> In this case, perhaps an epoch would be appropriate if you want users
> to be able to easily install both slack-desktop and your packaged
> slack, "the configuration management program".

Thanks for the heads up, I'll get onto this soon.

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