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 As the code becomes more and more outdated, open unfixed security bugs |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