Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:55:28AM -0200, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho wrote: > Please unblock package yowsup. > > Yowsup is a cross platform Python library that provides communication across > WhatsApp network. In Debian, the source yowsup generates a library and a > command line client. The library is the base for any new application and the > client is useful for scripts and applications as Zabbix and Pidgin. Currently, > this is the only way to use WhatsApp in Debian. > > Recently (November 2014), the WhatsApp changed its protocol to implement the > famous "double blue check", photo transfer when contacting a person and other > features. To support it, the authentication method was changed and this new > method is mandatory now. So, the old versions of the WhatsApp and the current > version of the youwsup in testing (revision -1) don't work anymore. In other > words, the version in testing is RC, because no longer register a new user > number nor authenticate a registered number. I'd be lying if I said I was enthusiastic about this. It's an overwhelmingly big patch for a leaf package that's new in Jessie. At the moment I'm tending more towards removing yowsup from testing. If nothing else, you need to file an RC bug against it with correct versions so that the situation is properly represented. -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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