Bug#702523: Bug#702486: Bug#703257: RM: libnet-twitter-lite-perl/0.11002-1

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:38:39 +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 02:07:37PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > Please consider removing libnet-twitter-lite-perl.  The current
> > twitter API is being disable this month requiring large changes to the
> > codebase (bug #702523), which are likely unacceptable at this point in
> > the freeze.
> > 
> > Note that this will also require removing its reverse-dependency tircd.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 02:10:03PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > Please consider removing libnet-twitter-perl.  The current twitter API
> > is being disable this month requiring large changes to the codebase
> > (bug #702486, which are likely unacceptable at this point in the
> > freeze.
> > 
> > Note that this will also require removing its reverse-dependency webgui.

webgui is not in wheezy and therefore unaffected by a potential
removal of libnet-twitter-perl from testing.
 
> I don't see any indication of you discussing this with the maintainers of
> libnet-twitter-* or their reverse dependencies? 

Thanks Jonathan for putting us in the loop!
I had indeed not seen the those 2 new bugs.
 
> NACK until the maintainers have chance to comment.

Dominic has looked at the packages this afternoon, maybe he can
summarise this opinion.


Cheers,
gregor

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