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

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:35:41 +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:

> 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:

> > > 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).
> > > 
> > > 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.
 
"want to go" is a bit strong :) but as I see it we don't have any
sane alternative at this stage of the freeze, so feel free to remove
the two packages from testing.

Cheers,
gregor

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