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

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:51:30PM +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:25:51PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I'm tending towards removal, sadly. The upstream diff is indeed rather
> large and at this stage, rather unwieldy. I realise lots of it is
> refactoring, but the functional changes would normally rule this out for an
> unblock.
> 
> There is a reverse dependency to consider, I just opened a bug to get
> Michael's comments.

Michael is happy for tircd to be removed too, since it is dead upstream. So
the way is clear for libnet-twitter-perl and libnet-twitter-lite-perl if
that is the way you want to go.


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