xchat is back, and Gianfranco wants to keep it. Also, I see little value in a transitional package or similar when they can't be upgraded from one to the other seamlessly. I'm therefore closing both tasks.
** Changed in: hexchat (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: xchat (Ubuntu) Status: New => Opinion ** Changed in: xchat (Ubuntu) Status: Opinion => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1322024 Title: Make Hexchat the default IRC client instead of XChat in Ubuntu 14.10 and later versions Status in hexchat package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in xchat package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Since XChat is no longer in development by it's main developer, I was thinking that maybe you guys should make HexChat the default IRC client for Ubuntu 14.10, if it isn't already the default IRC client in Ubuntu 14.04. It's a great IRC client, and it's much better than XChat. So I would really appreciate it if you guys could make HexChat the default IRC client in the next release of Ubuntu. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hexchat/+bug/1322024/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp