On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 02:44:38PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 08:42:18PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> > >> If neither Davide nor Bart (just CC'ed) speak up for keeping it, I am in > >> favour of xchat being removed/replaced by hexchat. > > > > I wonder whether it makes sense to set in hexchat > > > > Provides: xchat > > Replaces: xchat > > > > to make sure users will not end up with unmaintained software on their > > systems. > > That doesn't make sense since migrating from xchat to hexchat is an > extremely manual and a bit time consuming process, which is why I am > still using xchat and probably still will after it is removed. maybe my usage of xchat was just not advanced enough (only 1 custom plugin, 3 networks via a proxy on my vps), but it took me 10, 20 minutes tops to migrate 2 weeks ago by doing the steps in https://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-i-migrate-my-settings-from-xchat to be honest I didn't notice anything missing even though that same documentation above says that could be the case. if there was a xchat2 compability wrapper script that would do the migration by just automating the steps mentioned above and then exec'ing hexchat, it would have worked for me just fine. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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