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On 11/25/2012 09:27 PM, Lars Wendler wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I'm planning to lastrite net-irc/xchat in the next couple of
> weeks. Unfortunately my hope that upstream development would be
> resumed didn't come true. As the code becomes more and more
> outdated, open unfixed security bugs are present[1][2] and at some
> point in the future =x11-libs/gtk+-2* will vanish from the tree I
> don't see any other option than removing xchat from the tree. I
> don't see this as a big drama as we already have a drop-in
> replacement in form of the net-irc/hexchat fork. I checked this
> today and all people have to do is emerge hexchat and then copy
> over the xchat config: mkdir ${HOME}/.config ; cp -a
> ${HOME}/.xchat2 ${HOME}/.config/hexchat
>
> I'd like to see your opinion on this matter as long as you have one
> you'd like to share with me ;) Furthermore I would shift my
> attention from the xchat package to hexchat seeing that it
> currently gets proxy maintained. If there's no objection I'd like
> to become the new contact of the person currently maintaining the
> package in portage.
>
> I also planned to release a news through the portage news system as
> soon as I lastrite xchat so people know how to move over to
> hexchat. As I never did this before I'd like to have some help
> concerning this matter. Is there some documentation about portage
> news?
>
> Regards
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/394657 [2]
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/257006
That's a pity. I was just about to step forward to rescue
net-irc/xchat-xsys from treecleaning.
Do xchat plugins work in hexchat?
Maybe we could just hardmask it. I see some ebuilds in the tree being
hardmasked due to security bugs, but not removed which is ok to me.
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