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Bug#601971: unblock: liboauth/0.9.1-1



On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:51:13 +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:

> > Without this package, BTI and other twitter clients will not function in squeeze, as they would not be able
> > to authenticate with Twitter.
> While this appears to be useful for Twitter clients (those actually
> using the lib), there is not a single application build-depending on
> this library for now. So, why should we accept this in Squeeze?

JFTR: bti would already (build-)depend on it if it had been around
longer :)

(In fact I have a package ready with the new upstream release of bti
which uses liboauth).
 
> > libOAuth was accepted very recently into Debian Unstable, and that
> > is why it isn't in squeeze yet.
> Then, we won't be able to accept it in Squeeze I'm afraid.

Right, that's totally understandable.

I guess this is one of the cornercases where we have to sacrifice
an improvement in a small corner in order to improve the larger good
(i.e. get out the release without unnecessary delays and risk for the
quality).

(And we can then upload a newer bti + liboauth + other clients into
backports.)


Cheers,
gregor
 
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