Copying the bug as I neglected to do that
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From: "Jesse Rhodes" <drubo@drubo.net>
Date: 2014-02-11 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#738683: RFS: hexchat/2.9.6.1-1 [ITP]
To: "Paul Wise" <pabs@debian.org>
Cc:
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> On 2014-02-11 6:18 PM, "Paul Wise" <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:43 AM, sney wrote:
> >
> > > hexchat - IRC client for X based on X-Chat 2
> >
> > If this reaches Debian please ensure that it gets added to the
> > security team's embedded-code-copies file, they track forks too.
>
> OK, noted.
>
> > What is the plan for xchat? Will it be removed in favour of hexchat?
> > Are you co-ordinating with the Debian maintainers of xchat? Why was
> > there a fork, is xchat no longer developed upstream?
> Exactly right. Xchat upstream development stalled in 2010. Furthermore, the last update in debian was a nmu and the most recent update by the maintainer was in 2012. I emailed the xchat maintainer quite some time ago asking if he had any plans to replace xchat with hexchat and never received a response. As for whether hexchat will replace xchat as a result of my packaging it, that's up in the air - they don't use the same dotfiles or path names so they can coexist on the same system without issues. Perhaps popcon can make that decision.
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> sney