On 10/01/2015 07:37 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > 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. > I have only one problem, it doesn't identify irc.debian.org as host so I needed to change it to irc.oftc.net (not a big deal but still...). Cheers, zlatan -- It's not the COST, it's the VALUE
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