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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:26:37PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 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.

Ditto to both.

> > NACK until the maintainers have chance to comment.
> 
> Dominic has looked at the packages this afternoon, maybe he can
> summarise this opinion.

I don't think I have much more to add beyond my message at
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702486#36>.
It would of course be a shame if libnet-twitter-*perl were removed
from wheezy, but understandable. From my packaging work of
libnet-twitter-list-perl today, I can say that the changes are actually
not as large as they first appear; much of the changeset is noise due
to refactoring (to support the new API cleanly). If it was earlier on
in the freeze process, I'd be arguing more strongly for pushing this
into wheezy.

The main significant change is in Net/Twitter/Lite.pm itself:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libnet-twitter-lite-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=3029a124dc76aba3d3f9eb02e9a98f690652bb3d#patch25

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