Hey list,
I'm planning to lastrite net-irc/xchat in the next couple of weeks.
Unfortunately my hope that upstream development would be resumed didn't come
true. As the code becomes more and more outdated, open unfixed security bugs
are present[1][2] and at some point in the future =x11-libs/gtk+-2* will
vanish from the tree I don't see any other option than removing xchat from the
tree.
I don't see this as a big drama as we already have a drop-in replacement in
form of the net-irc/hexchat fork.
I checked this today and all people have to do is emerge hexchat and then copy
over the xchat config:
mkdir ${HOME}/.config ; cp -a ${HOME}/.xchat2 ${HOME}/.config/hexchatI'd like to see your opinion on this matter as long as you have one you'd like to share with me ;) Furthermore I would shift my attention from the xchat package to hexchat seeing that it currently gets proxy maintained. If there's no objection I'd like to become the new contact of the person currently maintaining the package in portage. I also planned to release a news through the portage news system as soon as I lastrite xchat so people know how to move over to hexchat. As I never did this before I'd like to have some help concerning this matter. Is there some documentation about portage news? Regards [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/394657 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/257006 -- Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) Gentoo package maintainer and bug-wrangler
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