Comment 3 for bug 759847

I took your patch and made some changes needed to install it as a separate plugin. Our goal is to enable plugin developers to create and package plugins without needing to get them merged into gwibber. You can find what I did at the following bzr branch:

lp:~ken-vandine/+junk/gwibber-service-sina

I added distutils stuff needed to create tarballs and I added debian packaging to create packages. To create a package from this branch:

sudo apt-get install bzr-builder
bzr bd

The resulting deb files will be in ../build-area/

You will need to tweak a few things:
  * copy the contents of the license to the COPYING file
  * Update debian/copyright to fill in the copyright and licensing information
  * Create a project on launchpad, I suggest "gwibber-service-sina"
  * Edit debian/sina to add the API key