On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:54:19 +0200 Bastian Germann <[email protected]> wrote: > Is zoitechat able to deal with an existing hexchat configuration?
Somewhat. As far as upstream and I can tell, a hexchat config from 2.16.x should be mostly compatible as long as you rename hexchat.conf to zoitechat.conf but we've advised against doing it blindly in the manual [1]. Migrating from 2.14.x or older has not been tested and theming is completely different now too [2].
So I am not sure a transitional package would be appropriate. But I will (in line with upstream and some other distro packages) make the description a little more explicit about being a gtk3 hexchat fork.
And once upon a time hexchat was included in some desktop metapackages with a default configuration in line with debian.org/support, maybe doing that for zoitechat would be enough of a hint for people to switch?
sney[1] https://docs.zoitechat.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-i-migrate-my-settings-from-hexchat
[2] https://docs.zoitechat.org/en/latest/appearance.html
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