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

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:59:36PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 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.

Ok, removal hint added.

Thanks,

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