Debian Bug report logs - #811007
RM: xchat -- RoQA; dead upstream; active fork available

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RM: xchat -- RoQA; dead upstream; active fork available

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:24:23 +0100

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi,
please remove xchat. It's unmaintained upstream for 5+ years. The last
uploads to the Debian archive were NMUs, the last one over a year ago
by myself.

hexchat, an active fork, is available and has been released with jessie.

Some discussion on debian-qa can be found in this thread:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2015/09/msg00017.html
There was no hard oposition to remove the package so I'd say now is the
point to remove it, so we get rid of it before the next stable release.

Thanks guys,
Sven

Message #10 received at 811007@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de>

To: 811007@bugs.debian.org

Subject: information about build-deps on xchat

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:51:30 +0100

Just to add a few more information regarding packages that will
FTBFS once xchat got removed:

- xchat-guile -> maintainer requested removal in #811079
- xchat-xsys -> hexchat-plugins contains its own xsys plugin so this one
  got a proper replacement and can be removed as well

That leaves only cwirc around which requires porting or removal.

Message #17 received at 811007@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>

To: 811007@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#811007: information about build-deps on xchat

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:21:30 -0500

On Friday, January 15, 2016 09:51:30 PM Sven Hoexter wrote:
> Just to add a few more information regarding packages that will
> FTBFS once xchat got removed:
> 
> - xchat-guile -> maintainer requested removal in #811079
> - xchat-xsys -> hexchat-plugins contains its own xsys plugin so this one
>   got a proper replacement and can be removed as well
> 
> That leaves only cwirc around which requires porting or removal.

xchat-xsys needs a removal bug and one way or another cwirc needs to not 
build-dep on anything xchat.  Once these are resolved, please remove the 
moreinfo tag.

Scott K

Message #22 received at 811007@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Esa Peuha <esa.peuha@gmail.com>

To: 811007@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#811007: information about build-deps on xchat

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:10:52 +0200

tag 811007 - moreinfo
thanks

Both cwirc and xchat-xsys have been removed, so now xchat can go too.

Message #29 received at 811007-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 811007-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: xchat@packages.debian.org, xchat@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#811007: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 18:15:57 +0000

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

     xchat |  2.8.8-7.3 | source
     xchat | 2.8.8-7.3+b2 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
xchat-common |  2.8.8-7.3 | all

------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; dead upstream; active fork available
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Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall run at the earliest.

Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.

We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package
automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed
correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 811007@bugs.debian.org.

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