Merge pull request #253510 from schmittlauch/cawbird-remove

cawbird: remove due to being broken and abandoned

nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2311.section.md

@@ -247,6 +247,8 @@ The module update takes care of the new config syntax and the data itself (user
 - `networking.nftables` is no longer flushing all rulesets on every reload.
   Use `networking.nftables.flushRuleset = true;` to get back the old behaviour.
 
+- The `cawbird` package is dropped from nixpkgs, as it got broken by the Twitter API closing down and has been abandoned upstream.
+
 ## Nixpkgs internals {#sec-release-23.11-nixpkgs-internals}
 
 - The use of `sourceRoot = "source";`, `sourceRoot = "source/subdir";`, and similar lines in package derivations using the default `unpackPhase` is deprecated as it requires `unpackPhase` to always produce a directory named "source". Use `sourceRoot = src.name`, `sourceRoot = "${src.name}/subdir";`, or `setSourceRoot = "sourceRoot=$(echo */subdir)";` or similar instead.

pkgs/applications/networking/cawbird/default.nix

@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, stdenv
-, fetchFromGitHub
-, glib
-, gtk3
-, json-glib
-, sqlite
-, libsoup
-, liboauth
-, gettext
-, gspell
-, vala
-, meson
-, ninja
-, pkg-config
-, dconf
-, gst_all_1
-, wrapGAppsHook
-, gobject-introspection
-, glib-networking
-, librest
-, python3
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "1.5";
-  pname = "cawbird";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "IBBoard";
-    repo = "cawbird";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-XFN9gfCoQDmYYysg1yrUoPPE0Ow40LttvV5Ltu0DTfI=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    meson
-    ninja
-    vala
-    pkg-config
-    wrapGAppsHook
-    python3
-    gobject-introspection # for setup hook
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    glib
-    gtk3
-    json-glib
-    sqlite
-    libsoup
-    liboauth
-    gettext
-    dconf
-    gspell
-    glib-networking
-    librest
-  ] ++ (with gst_all_1; [
-    gstreamer
-    gst-plugins-base
-    gst-plugins-bad
-    (gst-plugins-good.override {
-      gtkSupport = true;
-    })
-    gst-libav
-  ]);
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    chmod +x data/meson_post_install.py # patchShebangs requires executable file
-    patchShebangs data/meson_post_install.py
-  '';
-
-  # supply Twitter API keys
-  # use keys supplied by @SuperSandro2000, see https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird/blob/master/README.md#preparation
-  mesonFlags = [
-    "-Dconsumer_key_base64=YnJJNm01SE9PbEkzM3pWenZObVhVSHdlTg=="
-    "-Dconsumer_secret_base64=YUc1SkcyYzhsenlKT2VOWWhVSXlJMERDaFh0WEswUG9oTEp4TzhZNEdJb1hXN0hhYlY="
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Native GTK Twitter client for the Linux desktop";
-    longDescription = "Cawbird is a modern, easy and fun Twitter client. Fork of the discontinued Corebird.";
-    homepage = "https://ibboard.co.uk/cawbird/";
-    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ jonafato schmittlauch ];
-  };
-}

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   cassandra_2_1 = throw "cassandra_2_1 has been removed, please use cassandra_3_11 instead"; # Added 2022-10-29
   cassandra_2_2 = throw "cassandra_2_2 has been removed, please use cassandra_3_11 instead"; # Added 2022-10-29
   catfish = xfce.catfish; # Added 2019-12-22
+  cawbird = throw "cawbird has been abandoned upstream and is broken anyways due to Twitter closing its API";
   ccloud-cli = throw "ccloud-cli has been removed, please use confluent-cli instead"; # Added 2023-06-09
   ccnet = throw "ccnet has been removed because seafile does not depend on it anymore"; # Added 2021-03-25
   cde-gtk-theme = throw "cde-gtk-theme has been removed from nixpkgs as it shipped with python2 scripts that didn't work anymore"; # Added 2022-01-12

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -4594,8 +4594,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   cardpeek = callPackage ../applications/misc/cardpeek { inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) PCSC; };
 
-  cawbird = callPackage ../applications/networking/cawbird { };
-
   cde = callPackage ../tools/package-management/cde { };
 
   cdxgen = callPackage ../tools/security/cdxgen { };