Re: Bug#589360: propose to remove twitux package from testing (was twitux: lack of OAuth support)
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:18:51AM -0400, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> > This package is twitter client, but it seems to lack OAuth support.
> > Twitter will drop Authentication method like Basic Auth other than OAuth,
> > so this should support OAuth until 16th August (it means twitux would be
> > completely unusable after that day).
> >
> > And I suggest once to remove it from tesing.
>
> Since I reported this 3 weeks ago, there is no progress and upstream
> seems to be dead, see http://twitux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/twitux/
> So, I'll propose twitux package from testing once.
I agree with your assesment, please go ahead.
Luke, I think you were interested in this package. If you have the
time to take over its upstream let me know and we can work on updating
it so it can go back into testing.
Otherwise, I think we should actually go all the way and ask for it to
be removed from the archive.
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Rodrigo Gallardo
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