Comment 7 for bug 735656

Its still happening in precise.

I rebuilt the package after removing patch 71 with some help from google. not sure if theres an easier way to do it, but this is how I did it:
*might be best if you made a separate dir and cd to it*
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get build-dep xchat
sudo apt-get source xchat
sudo patch -p0 -R -i xchat-2.8.8/debian/patches/71_fix_nick_not_to_highlight.patch
cd xchat-2.8.8/
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc
sudo apt-get remove xchat xchat-common
sudo dpkg -i ../xchat*.deb