On 0, Bilal Akhtar <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package liboauth >
> This package is blocking major bugs in twitter clients, an example of such a > bug is bug #588235 . > Twitter recently dropped support for Basic Auth and now all twitter clients > are forced to use OAuth to > authenticate to Twitter. libOAuth is the ONLY OAuth 1.0 library written in C, > and hence all Twitter clients > written in C need this. > > 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? > 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. Regards, -- Mehdi Dogguy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
