[DRE-maint] Bug#733004: NameError: uninitialized constant Twitter::Client::Error on 1.9.1

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

Package: ruby-twitter4r
Version: 0.7.0-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

while looking at a dependent package, I tried some code from it:

% irb1.9.1
irb(main):001:0> require 'twitter'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> c = Twitter::Client.new(:login=>'ch2500', :password=>'XXXXXXXXXX')
=> #<Twitter::Client:0x00000001a26380 @login="ch2500">
irb(main):003:0> c.timeline_for(:me)
NameError: uninitialized constant Twitter::Client::Error
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/twitter/client/base.rb:77:in `rest_access_token'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/twitter/client/base.rb:16:in `rest_oauth_connect'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/twitter/client/timeline.rb:79:in `timeline_for'
        from (irb):3
        from /usr/bin/irb1.9.1:12:in `<main>'

As upstream apparently is dead for 2+ years now, I'd suggest we remove
twitter4r, as it's unlikely to still work with the current twitter.com API.

The dependent package yapra uses twitter4r only as part of a legacy
plugin, which is likely broken right now.

Christian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ruby-twitter4r depends on:
ii  ruby                          1:1.9.3
ii  ruby-json                     1.8.0-1
ii  ruby-oauth                    0.4.7-1
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.484-1
ii  ruby2.0 [ruby-interpreter]    2.0.0.353-1

ruby-twitter4r recommends no packages.

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