Am Sonntag 25 November 2012, 22:03:03 schrieb hasufell:
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> On 11/25/2012 09:27 PM, Lars Wendler wrote:
> > 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 outdated, open unfixed security bugs are present[1][2] and at some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/hexchat
> >
> > I'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
>
> That's a pity. I was just about to step forward to rescue
> net-irc/xchat-xsys from treecleaning.How about migrating xchat-xsys to hexchat? > Do xchat plugins work in hexchat? That's something for me to find out as well. I maintain the xchat-otr plugin which I would like to continue using in hexchat. > Maybe we could just hardmask it. I see some ebuilds in the tree being > hardmasked due to security bugs, but not removed which is ok to me. -- Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) Gentoo package maintainer and bug-wrangler
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