[dput-ng-maint] Bug#697768: Bug#697768: dput-ng: please explain how to setup the twitter hook

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:51:40PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Package: dput-ng
> Version: 1.3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hello,

Hi!

> the Twitter integration of dput-ng is really awesome (and it would avoid me to
> "announce" the upload manually) but it lacks information about setting up the
> integration, in particular how to obtain the oAuth keys to login onto Twitter.

Oh yes, this. I'm sorry about this, in advance.

> 
> AFAIK (but I could be totally wrong) in order to allow an API to access Twitter,
> you need to register an application on Twitter, than allow that application to
> access your profile an so you have the 4 keys needed to access the API remotely
> and post updates. This is kind of a long process (also the lack of an "official"
> dput-ng application on Twitter makes the process even more painful) and so a
> proper guidance would be awesome.

So, not only are you not totally wrong, you're totally right.

The issue is, I've got no idea what I'm doing ;)

I'm not sure if the client secret / id should be shared -- I don't know
what the security implcations are for that. If they're cool to share
(and I find some docs that make me feel less afraid), I'd be more then
happy to ship this in a more usable form. In fact, I'd even go so far as
to write something to auto-populate the config file after auth'ing
against the server.

If you have some advice, it'd be ultra welcome.

> 
> Cheers,
> Sandro

Thanks for the bug report (and helping make dput-ng better!)
  Paul

> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages dput-ng depends on:
> ii  python       2.7.3-3
> ii  python-dput  1.3
> 
> Versions of packages dput-ng recommends:
> ii  bash-completion  1:2.0-1
> 
> dput-ng suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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