Copying the bug as I neglected to do that ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jesse Rhodes" <dr...@drubo.net> Date: 2014-02-11 6:36 PM Subject: Re: Bug#738683: RFS: hexchat/2.9.6.1-1 [ITP] To: "Paul Wise" <p...@debian.org> Cc:
> > On 2014-02-11 6:18 PM, "Paul Wise" <p...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:43 AM, sney wrote: > > > > > hexchat - IRC client for X based on X-Chat 2 > > > > If this reaches Debian please ensure that it gets added to the > > security team's embedded-code-copies file, they track forks too. > > OK, noted. > > > What is the plan for xchat? Will it be removed in favour of hexchat? > > Are you co-ordinating with the Debian maintainers of xchat? Why was > > there a fork, is xchat no longer developed upstream? > Exactly right. Xchat upstream development stalled in 2010. Furthermore, the last update in debian was a nmu and the most recent update by the maintainer was in 2012. I emailed the xchat maintainer quite some time ago asking if he had any plans to replace xchat with hexchat and never received a response. As for whether hexchat will replace xchat as a result of my packaging it, that's up in the air - they don't use the same dotfiles or path names so they can coexist on the same system without issues. Perhaps popcon can make that decision. > > Thanks for your feedback. > > sney
