Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: stretch
User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu
Dear release team,
Twitter changed the character limit of tweets to 280 chars (see [1]). The
version of corebird in stretch does only allow to compose tweets with 140
chars. The fix is really trivial[2].
Would you allow an update of corebird?
Best,
Philip
[1]
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html
[2]
https://github.com/baedert/corebird/commit/d3cc0b068b4f3b1d0d97e4bd7c9e723d002636c1
diff -Nru corebird-1.4.1/debian/changelog corebird-1.4.1/debian/changelog
--- corebird-1.4.1/debian/changelog 2017-01-09 15:16:58.000000000 +0100
+++ corebird-1.4.1/debian/changelog 2017-11-20 11:43:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+corebird (1.4.1-1+deb9u1) stretch; urgency=medium
+
+ * Allow 280 characters per tweet
+
+ -- Philip Rinn <ri...@inventati.org> Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:43:37 +0100
+
corebird (1.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release:
diff -Nru corebird-1.4.1/debian/patches/01-allow-280-characters.patch
corebird-1.4.1/debian/patches/01-allow-280-characters.patch
--- corebird-1.4.1/debian/patches/01-allow-280-characters.patch 1970-01-01
01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ corebird-1.4.1/debian/patches/01-allow-280-characters.patch 2017-11-16
12:09:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Description: Twitter changed the limit to 280 characters
+Author: Timm Bäder <m...@baedert.org>
+--- a/src/CbTweet.h
++++ b/src/CbTweet.h
+@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
+ #include "CbTypes.h"
+ #include "CbMedia.h"
+
+-#define CB_TWEET_MAX_LENGTH 140
++#define CB_TWEET_MAX_LENGTH 280
+
+ typedef enum
+ {
diff -Nru corebird-1.4.1/debian/patches/series
corebird-1.4.1/debian/patches/series
--- corebird-1.4.1/debian/patches/series 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000
+0100
+++ corebird-1.4.1/debian/patches/series 2017-11-16 12:09:28.000000000
+0100
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+01-allow-280-characters.patch
