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XChat and HexChat: When distributions get it wrong
- pzone 9y agoWow, I didn't realize a maintainer could get something into Debian with so little oversight.
- geezerjay 9y agoWhere do you see any lack of oversight? XChat is a well-established application that exists for over a decade, and a maintainer is even contributing his time to keep it up-to-date. That's what I expect of Debian, and what makes Debian so awesome. The only take from this blog entry is that the maintainer of a rival project appears to be miffed that one of the main linux distros isn't keen in killing off his rival.
- geezerjay 9y agoI really don't see the point of this rant. So, Debian distributes XChat and one of Debian's maintainers even contributes his time and expertise to patch XChat, and someone who forked XChat some years ago is pissed about it. What's the point of all of this? Yeah, Debian is great and this is just a small reminder of the awesome work Debian does to maintain the software they distribute. Why is this suddenly wrong?
- Doxin 9y agoIIRC there's some animosity due to the fact that windows builds for xchat aren't (or weren't, I'm not exactly up to date on this) available for free. In any case hexchat is available as package for debian as well, so I don't much see the problem.