Just installing hexchat would mean adding a "transitional" package in the hexchat source.
One way to have a suggestion about hexchat would be having command-not- found handle it. To get an idea of how that works, if you uninstall hexchat and run hexchat in a terminal, you'll get this output on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: $ hexchat Command 'hexchat' not found, but can be installed with: sudo snap install hexchat sudo apt install hexchat See 'snap info hexchat' for additional versions. === So I suggest filing a separate bug against hexchat or command-not-found for your suggestion. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xchat-gnome in Ubuntu. 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/+bug/1758163/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
