FYI, I am against this removal. xchat-gnome is the only gtk3 irc client
in Ubuntu, which is natively compatible with Wayland going forward.

hexchat is a gtk2 application which should probably get removed seeing
as how we are trying to deprecate the gtk2.0 package.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758163

Title:
  Please remove xchat-gnome from Ubuntu (again)

Status in xchat-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  xchat-gnome is unmaintained.

  It was removed from Debian and Ubuntu 17.04. It was reintroduced to
  Ubuntu but without any real commitment to maintain the package.

  Its last upstream release was 9 years ago
  https://download.gnome.org/sources/xchat-gnome/0.26/

  The Ubuntu version is a bizarre mix up of a git snapshot and 37
  patches.

  Users would be better off switching to hexchat which is actually
  maintained.

  See also https://launchpad.net/bugs/1753169 for xchat, a somewhat
  different app with the same general problem.

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