Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

Hi all, just came across this bug... As xchat user since Debian Woody I would like to thanks Gianfranco too for maintaining and bring it back. regards, Federico

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

Hello, for sake of transparency, I'm also publicly stating the private discussion we had with hexchat author (who quoted parts of my answer email on his blog, so I presume this is fine) email: Hi, I'm the HexChat maintainer and I noticed you re-added XChat to the Debian repositories. To be

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

Hello, >I don't see how this package is unmaintainable. Do you think that >Gianfranco is not up to the job to take care of a simple package like >xchat? > >Are we now questioning the skills of each other in public? I don't think this is the point, I don't take this as personal, and I hope

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

Hello, >He pointed at 4 recent commits fixing remote crashes when connecting to >an untrusted IRC server: oh well, I could point that connecting to unsecure websites, can hurt your browser too :) Seriously, an irc client crashing when connecting to a new server, is not as an issue as it might

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

control: severity -1 important control: clone -1 -2 control: reassign -2 src:hexchat control: retitle -2 hexchat: current upstream maintainer is fixing security bugs without disclosing them, making hexchat completely unsafe for stable releases Hello, (I'm cloning based on the fact that new

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 05:50:15PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> I don't think a rant posted on reddit by the author of a fork > >> is justified enough to ask for a package to be removed from > >> the archive. > > > > The author posted his opinion to his personal blog and did not >

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

On 03/04/2018 05:26 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > 1. "in the maintainer's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release" [1] Didn't you say there is no longer an upstream maintainer? Please note we have had similar cases with other packages where the maintainer of a forked project or the

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Could you provide any references to bug reports which indicates > that there are problems with the xchat package which make it > unfit for release or violate against any of the points mentioned > in

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

Package: src:xchat Followup-For: Bug #891982 Hi Jeremy! Could you provide any references to bug reports which indicates that there are problems with the xchat package which make it unfit for release or violate against any of the points mentioned in the Debian Policy? Please note that we have

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

For gods sake, please go for it. Thank you very much Cheers Alf

Bug#891982: xchat: Intent to file removal bug

Source: xchat Version: 2.8.8-13 Severity: serious xchat was removed from Debian 2 years ago because "dead upstream; active fork available" [1] The situation has not changed since then. xchat has not had any upstream releases since 2010. Meanwhile, hexchat is under active development. The