Nixpkgs: imgurbash no longer works (and seems unlikely to get fixed?)

[michalrus]

Issue description

The Imgur API has changed.

See the discussion in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/imgurbash/ .

Steps to reproduce

% nix-shell -p scrot imgurbash --run 't=$(mktemp) ; scrot $t.png ; imgurbash $t.png'

Delete page:
% curl -Ssf http://imgur.com/api/upload.xml
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
%

Technical details

• System: NixOS 16.09pre79453.32b7b00 (Flounder)
• Nix version: nix-env (Nix) 1.11.2
• Nixpkgs version: "16.09pre79453.32b7b00"

[jgillich]

This is an upstream issue, right? Are you suggesting to remove it ("unlikely to get fixed")?

[michalrus]

@jgillich, totally upstream, yeah. However, there’s been no contact with the upstream developer so far.

Arch users are using this one now → https://github.com/ram-on/imgurbash2 (cf. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/imgurbash/).

Should I make a PR for us to switch to it?

[michalrus]

No, wait, the original author has been summoned.

[abbradar]

I think of removing imgurbash from repositories and replacing it with imgurbash2 (I like a GitHub project more than a patch from AUR maintainer -- at least we can report issues and have a better source URL). I don't have a strong opinion on this however; What do you think?

[abbradar]

Closed by 59bed14119a2842947e948efbd696c51616cb687

[abbradar]

For our release branch I've decided to patch imgurbash instead (to minimize amount of external changes). See 4b667665c2c459a02c8d37a5e97302a621fcfbb5.