[SOLUTION] all hail hexchat, hexchat is dead, remove unmaintained hexchat
this happens on debian 13.1 xfce
after installing io.github.Hexchat I get this message on the terminal:
Info: runtime org.freedesktop.Platform branch 23.08 is end-of-life, with reason: org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08 is no longer receiving fixes and security updates. Please update to a supported runtime version. Info: applications using this runtime: io.github.Hexchat
the message applies to the following runtimes as well:
org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel branch 23.08
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default branch 23.08-extra
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default
if I remove them manually and I update flatpak, it asks me to install them again
My computer uses both system and user remotes.
Because my .var directory is almost full, I installed hexchat as user, but the drivers are systemwide. I don’t know if this is relevant.
@arsus5478 The maintainer must update the dependencies for the package.
the info line contains the answer:
Info: applications using this runtime: io.github.Hexchat
You need to remove Hexchat if you want to remove the end-of-life runtimes it requires.
I regret to inform you that the maintainer wrote in February 2024: This will be the last release I make of HexChat. The project has largely been unmaintained for years now and nobody else stepped up to do that work.
My computer uses both system and user remotes.
Because my .var directory is almost full, […]
If you’re low on disk space you probably want to have everything installed as either user or system, to avoid having some runtimes installed in both.
anything I’ve ever removed with ( flatpak remove --unused ) has not re-appeared again. Not that I’ve noticed anyway.
Wait is hexchat really dead? Didn’t it replace xchat? So what’s the go to irc client now?
Yes, the repository has been archived. https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat
What’s the gui-based irc client people are using now instead?
Personally I still use Hexchat since it is still supported by my distribution for several years. It won’t receive new features but security fixes only which I’m fine with.
not related to the problem, but if space is an issue convert your file system to btrfs. you get on-the-fly compression and (more important) deduping, so two same files occupy space only once.
