[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#687480: Bug#687480: Bug#687480: xfce4-weather-plugin: No longer works since weather.com no longer provides free data

[Daniel Echeverry]

2012/9/13 Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor at gmail.com>

> 2012/9/13 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>:
> > Control: severity -1 wishlist
> >
> > On jeu., 2012-09-13 at 09:57 +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> >> Package: xfce4-weather-plugin
> >> Version: 0.7.4-3+b1
> >> Severity: grave
> >> Tags: upstream
> >> Justification: renders package unusable
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The xfce4-weather-plugin no longer works because weather.com doesn't
> provide
> >> free data anymore.
> >>
> >> This problem is known and fixed starting with version 0.8.0:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8105
> >>
> >> The package needs a new upstream version to be usable, otherwise it's
> useless.
> >>
> >
> > Unstable (and stable) version still works perfectly fine. Switching to
>
> Are you sure they do? I have the same version in wheezy as there is in
> sid and it does not work.
> Please note the bug is for that version, nobody said anything about
> stable, so changing the severity of the bug for this version because
> an older version works is nonsense.
>
> Also, with the weather.com api changing, I am unsure if indeed the
> stable version still works, but that's irrelevant.
>
> > another provider is definitely a good idea, but that's not something for
> > Wheezy.
>
> I suppose delivering a non-functional xfcee4-weather-plugin in Wheezy
> is a better idea than packaging a new version >=0.8.0 or removing the
> package from the archive so Wheezy does not have a non-functional
> application.
>
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Yves-Alexis
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> EddyP
>
>
Hi,

If necessary, I could work tonight packaging the new version :)

Regards
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