Re: [debian-devel] mICQ packaging (was: Re: On the matter of Qt packaging)
Hi!
>--[Martin Michlmayr]--<tbm@cyrius.com>
> * Rüdiger Kuhlmann <debian-list-Z03BQH65YjkN@ruediger-kuhlmann.de> [2003-02-07 03:08]:
> > mICQ was never "unmaintained" upstream.
> Out of curiosity, do you know why micq was removed from Red Hat Linux
> in version 8.0?
The last version shipped with RedHat was in RedCrap 7.3, and that was mICQ
0.4.6. That's like 3 years old, so blame them for not keeping their stuff
uptodate. For 8.0 you have to know that it uses UTF-8 as default, and mICQ
didn't support that prior to 0.4.10 (it is, however, currently the only ICQ
client to send properly tagged UTF-8 encdoded messages to peers claiming to
understand them). That may or may not be the actual reason; it may also be
to reduce the amount of packages - RH8.0 doesn't ship any text based ICQ
client at all (not mICQ, not YSM, not vICQ, not centericq).
Yours, Rüdiger.
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