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Am Sonntag 25 November 2012, 22:03:03 schrieb hasufell: |
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> On 11/25/2012 09:27 PM, Lars Wendler wrote: |
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> > Hey list, |
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> > |
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> > I'm planning to lastrite net-irc/xchat in the next couple of |
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> > weeks. Unfortunately my hope that upstream development would be |
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> > resumed didn't come true. As the code becomes more and more |
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> > outdated, open unfixed security bugs are present[1][2] and at some |
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> > point in the future =x11-libs/gtk+-2* will vanish from the tree I |
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> > don't see any other option than removing xchat from the tree. I |
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> > don't see this as a big drama as we already have a drop-in |
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> > replacement in form of the net-irc/hexchat fork. I checked this |
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> > today and all people have to do is emerge hexchat and then copy |
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> > over the xchat config: mkdir ${HOME}/.config ; cp -a |
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> > ${HOME}/.xchat2 ${HOME}/.config/hexchat |
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> > |
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> > I'd like to see your opinion on this matter as long as you have one |
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> > you'd like to share with me ;) Furthermore I would shift my |
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> > attention from the xchat package to hexchat seeing that it |
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> > currently gets proxy maintained. If there's no objection I'd like |
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> > to become the new contact of the person currently maintaining the |
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> > package in portage. |
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> > |
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> > I also planned to release a news through the portage news system as |
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> > soon as I lastrite xchat so people know how to move over to |
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> > hexchat. As I never did this before I'd like to have some help |
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> > concerning this matter. Is there some documentation about portage |
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> > news? |
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> > |
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> > Regards |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/394657 [2] |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/257006 |
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> That's a pity. I was just about to step forward to rescue |
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> net-irc/xchat-xsys from treecleaning. |
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How about migrating xchat-xsys to hexchat? |
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> Do xchat plugins work in hexchat? |
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That's something for me to find out as well. I maintain the xchat-otr plugin |
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which I would like to continue using in hexchat. |
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> Maybe we could just hardmask it. I see some ebuilds in the tree being |
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> hardmasked due to security bugs, but not removed which is ok to me. |
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Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) |
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Gentoo package maintainer and bug-wrangler |
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