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Dear Waldemar the case is the first one.

Skype is a closed binary source relased from skype.com and packaged by
canonical.

So basically canonical can't to so much for fixing bugs, it can only fix
bugs related from configuration of the program, pre/post installation
scripts and so on.

There are so many bugs that cannot fixed downstream by canonical, while
others can.

So basically if you wants somebody here help fix the bug you have to
provide a bug report when using a canonical skype version to be sure
that the ubuntu specific version has this bug (maybe sometimes if you
try the upstream version you get a bug while the downstream doesn't
trigger the bug at all).

Skype 4 is being packaged by canonical staff right now, I don't know
when it will be ready for public release, but I'm pretty sure it will
fix your webcam bug.

In the meantime you can download skype 4 from skype.com and try to
reproduce the problem. Skype 4 has so many improvements in webcam
reconition, so you might get a working skype just by downloading the new
version.

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  Webcam not working in Skype

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