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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 outdated, open unfixed security bugs are present[1][2] and at some |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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> 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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> 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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> 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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Do xchat plugins work 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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