" An updated UI Our new cloud-based Group Chat experience More reliable file transfer support when using multiple devices at once Greater accessibility by blind and visually impaired users PulseAudio 3.0 and 4.0 support Lot of bug fixes "
+ 18 Jun 2014; Jauhien Piatlicki <jauhien@gentoo.org> + +files/skype-4.3.0.37-desktop.patch, +skype-4.3.0.37.ebuild: + version bump, closing bug #513712, thanks to Manuel Rüger
This version of skype can fail to start with old profile. Removing of ~/.Skype helps. I have no idea if there is a saner solution for this problem.
Skype 4.3 lacks support for alsa: http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/No-sound-with-ALSA-after-recent-Skype-upgrade-4-2-gt-4-3-on/m-p/3219164 Should I add pulse audio as dependency or can it still be usefull for somebody just as text chat? Or may be add optional dependency?
> 19 Jun 2014; Jauhien Piatlicki <jauhien@gentoo.org> skype-4.3.0.37.ebuild: > add pulseaudio USE, as Skype has no ALSA support now
The new version fails to start with the old profile (segfault). cd ~ && mv .Skype .Skype_old fixed it, thanks to Jauhien Piatlicki! backtrace from gdb `which skype` -ex r http://dpaste.com/0R34CKK
Ok, works for me on both ~x86 and ~amd64. I think all that could be done downstream is done (suggest user to install pulseaudio, hahaha). So closing.