Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1217584
XChat should be retired in favor of HexChat
Last modified: 2017-11-01 09:24:16 EDT
The last release of XChat was 2010 and since then the fork HexChat has taken its place entirely fixing numerous issues including security fixes that XChat will never get. HexChat has been in fedora for a while now and in some respins (MATE) it is even the default already. The issue with XChat still being packaged though is that many users still install it not knowing it is a dead project. Gnome Software even recommends it with a giant banner to new users...
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle. Changing version to '23'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23
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Yes, let's do it. I sent a message to desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org to notify the Workstation Working Group: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/KLH6FNU5WW253TKQXZS3CCICUID25X6Q/ I don't foresee too many objections.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle. Changing version to '26'.
(In reply to Debarshi Ray from comment #3) > Yes, let's do it. > > I sent a message to desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org to notify the > Workstation Working Group: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@lists.fedoraproject. > org/thread/KLH6FNU5WW253TKQXZS3CCICUID25X6Q/ It was suggested that we remove caillon as the point of contact for all his packages. So, I have taken this to devel@lists.fedoraproject.org now: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/7XWAFFRL6LEZ6BQRXUZSRZNXQ5WH6TTB/
hexchat should be updated adding provides/obsoletes to xchat