On 2015-09-13 15:05, Sven Hoexter wrote: > Hi, > since Sandro gave up on package removal sprees some time ago I've lost > track on the process of package removals beside of maintainer requests. > Is someone actually working on removing unmaintained stuff from Debian > at the moment? > > In a bleak moment prior to the jessie release I did the last upload of > xchat to unstable, but looking at it now I regret to have invested those > 20 minutes. Today I've taken another 20 minutes and migrated to hexchat which > is an actively maintained fork upstream and in Debian. Looking at > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xchat I think we should remove > xchat ASAP, it's not even the latest release from 2010. > > So do we've some process to follow at the moment or someone regularly tackling > such packages? > > Sven > Hi, At a quick glance, it looks NMU maintained. If neither Davide nor Bart (just CC'ed) speak up for keeping it, I am in favour of xchat being removed/replaced by hexchat. Thanks, ~Niels
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