Bug#702523: Bug#702486: libnet-twitter-perl: version 4.x required for new Twitter API

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:49:56PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Control: clone 702486 -1
> Control: reassign -1 libnet-twitter-lite-perl
> Control: retitle -1 libnet-twitter-perl: needs update for new Twitter API
> 
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:28:50AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > Package: libnet-twitter-perl
> > Severity: grave
> > 
> > Let's turn this into a proper bug report:
> > 
> > Patrick Brewer <pwbrewer at me.com> writes:
> > > For those using Net:Twitter the latest version of the lib is needed
> > > ASAP.  Twitter is turning off their old API sometime this month
> > > (official date was yesterday).  A version of the module in 4.x is
> > > required for the new API.  The very latest I can find for debian is
> > > 3.18003 here: http://packages.debian.org/sid/libnet-twitter-perl
> 
> Cloning this for libnet-twitter-lite-perl as support for Twitter API
> 1.1 was also only introduced in Net::Twitter::Lite in
> 
> 0.12000 2013-03-04
>     - URI encode POSTDATA to match Twitter's more stringent (non-standard) requirements
>     - created Net::Twitter::Lite::WithAPIv1_1 for Twitter API v1.1 support

This is now fixed for libnet-twitter-lite-perl in experimental.

Release team: the old API from twitter is very close to going away;
https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-update

and new upstream releases of both Net::Twitter and Net::Twitter::Lite
are needed to allow continued usage of these modules.

The upstream diffs are quite large:

https://metacpan.org/diff/release/MMIMS/Net-Twitter-Lite-0.11002/MMIMS/Net-Twitter-Lite-0.12000

https://metacpan.org/diff/release/MMIMS/Net-Twitter-3.18003/MMIMS/Net-Twitter-4.00003

but the alternative is probably removing both from wheezy (and squeeze).

FWIW, there's a (somewhat sloppy, to be tidied up) backport of
Net::Twitter::Lite 0.11002 for squeeze at

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libnet-twitter-lite-perl.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/experimental-squeeze

Thoughts: new upstream releases; remove; something else?

Cheers,
Dominic.

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