Bug#721921: pu: package ttytter/2.0.1-1+deb7u1
Control: tags -1 + confirmed
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 04:26 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> (2013-09-05):
> > I'd like to see the possibilities of updating TTYtter in stable. The
> > goal is to make TTYtter work with the new Twitter API: the version
> > currently in wheezy is unusable because of this API change.
> >
> > As the API change was very significant, in my opinion the only
> > feasible way to solve it, would be to import the "new" upstream
> > release that fixes that.
[...]
> if the idea is rebuilding 2.1.0-1 in wheezy, you probably could, or even
> should version it as 2.1.0-1~deb7u1 (adding a changelog entry on top of
> what's in unstable/testing).
Indeed.
> > Please let me know if this is acceptable. The alternative is that the
> > package is removed and we provide this version via backports.
>
> The idea doesn't look crazy to me, but the diff is huge… I think I might
> wait for another opinion on this one.
It's less huge than I was expecting it might be, based on that
comment. :-) Hopefully twitter won't be making any further large
breaking API changes in the near future; please go ahead.
Regards,
Adam
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