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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 20 May 2016 12:48:28 +0100 lkcl <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: >> currently having to manually rebuild xchat (which is possible thanks to >> all the source being available, yay!) because it has a critical dependency >> on libperl5.20 (or whatever it happened to be built on) > > xchat has been removed from testing and unstable since it unmaintained > upstream, argh! it actually works! unmaintained _can_ mean "it's so stable that it doesn't need maintaining"... but there's a fork... so.. > see https://bugs.debian.org/811007 for details. > xchat has been superseded by the actively maintained fork "hexchat", > which is available in Debian since jessie. ... hexchat seems to recommend gvfs (which is part of gnome, which i don't want). fortunately it's possible to do "apt-get --without-recommends install hexchat" > If you think there should be a transitional xchat package in stretch to > pull in hexchat on upgrades, please file a bug against hexchat. ack. > I also tested rebuilding xchat from jessie in both sid and jessie > environments (via pbuilder) and didn't see any "artefacts" (like /DEBIAN > directories in the filesystem root of the generated packages), therefore > I'm closing this bug report now. Maybe something in your build > environment is/was broken. it's a continually-upgraded debian/testing system so... yeah quite likely :) thanks for the info, andreas. l.
