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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:51 PM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 02:12:12 PM Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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> > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages |
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> > * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype |
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> > * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version |
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> > There were some version number snarls and it was decided that a split |
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> would |
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> > be cleaner. |
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> > Blame microsoft for giving their current version a lower number than the |
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> > classic one. |
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> Thank you for this note as I would probably have missed this. |
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> I will test this on a VM until it leaves "alpha" status. |
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> One little note: I don't think it's supposed to be possible to install |
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> both at |
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> the same time. But it is currently possible. |
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I actually do it that way on purpose. |
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I think it's because skype is not slotted and the dependency line in the |
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> ebuild specifies slot "1" for skype. |
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By design. I removed the slotting after splitting the package. |
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And I made this announcement becuase I'm the current proxy maintainer for |
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both packages. |
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> -- |
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> Joost |
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