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 <shentino@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.