I am rather thankful that you did this and at the same time surprised Microsoft decided to work on a dedicated Skype client for Linux.
Since the GNU/Linux community is responsive, we might make considerable contribution to troubleshooting the client. I will probably give it a go to see how it fairs against google-talkplugin. Regards, Andy On 4 October 2016 at 23:12, Raymond Jennings <shent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages > > * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype > * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version > > There were some version number snarls and it was decided that a split > would be cleaner. > > Blame microsoft for giving their current version a lower number than the > classic one. >
