** Description changed: [Impact] - * Twitter changed the character limit of tweets to 280 [1], users of - corebird in artful are only able to compose tweets with 140 characters. + * Twitter changed the character limit of tweets to 280 [1], users of + corebird in artful are only able to compose tweets with 140 characters. - * Backporting the fix to the stable release is necessary to incorporate - changes of Twitters web service. - + * Backporting the fix to the stable release is necessary to incorporate + changes of Twitters web service. [Test Case] - * Open corebird, login with your twitter account + * Open corebird, login with your twitter account - * Try to compose a tweet with 280 characters + * Try to compose a tweet with 280 characters - * Result: Without the patch only 140 characters are possible + * Result: Without the patch only 140 characters are possible + [Regression Potential] - [Regression Potential] + * I don't see any regression potential, only one constant in the source code + is changed and the same change is applied upstream[2] for weeks now with + no reported bug. - * I don't see any regression potential, only one constant in the source code - is changed and the same change is applied upstream[2] for weeks now with - no reported bug. - - - [1] https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html + [1] + https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html [2] https://github.com/baedert/corebird/commit/d3cc0b068b4f3b1d0d97e4bd7c9e723d002636c1 - - - Original bug report: - - ----- - Twitter changed to a new character limit of 280 characters: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html - - The Corebird dev already changed the limit for corebird: - https://github.com/baedert/corebird/commit/d3cc0b068b4f3b1d0d97e4bd7c9e723d002636c1 - - please update the repo Packages to include this patch. - - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 - Package: corebird 1.6-1 - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4 - Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 - ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1 - Architecture: amd64 - CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu - Date: Wed Nov 8 11:27:10 2017 - InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-28 (1501 days ago) - InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130925.1) - SourcePackage: corebird - UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-06-30 (131 days ago)
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