[DRE-maint] Bug#964544: gist: version of gist in buster uses deprecated GitHub APIs

[Peter van Dijk]

Package: gist
Version: 5.0.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

please consider backporting Authorization header support for gist-paste to the gist package in Debian buster.

Right now, every few pastes I do, I get an email '[GitHub API] Deprecation notice for authentication via URL query parameters'. Additional info on the deprecation can be found at https://developer.github.com/changes/2020-02-10-deprecating-auth-through-query-param/

The API change will be mandatory starting May 5, 2021. This is well within buster's expected life time.

Upstream has a patch at https://github.com/defunkt/gist/commit/635b1437a513e9a13367827ee3f74fbbdaa54aa8 ; this patch is part of 5.1.0 as currently available in testing and unstable. Can this patch be backported to Buster?

Thank you.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.4
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gist depends on:
ii  ruby            1:2.5.1
ii  ruby-json       2.1.0+dfsg-2+b1
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.12

gist recommends no packages.

gist suggests no packages.

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