[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#731805: xfce4-weather-plugin: package fails

[Mason Loring Bliss]

Package: xfce4-weather-plugin
Version: 0.7.4-3+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

The version of the plug-in shipped by Debian no longer works. According to
the project's web site:

    Attention: Please update to 0.8.3. Versions older than 0.8.0 no longer
    work (bug #8105), and all earlier 0.8.x versions have problems with the
    search dialog (bug #9636) and are no longer supported.

They reference two bugs:

    https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8105
    https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9636

Between these two, the package is not unusable as shipped. I'm not sure how
Debian wants to approach this - backporting fixes or updating the package
in-place - but I hope the answer isn't "leave it broken".

The Jessie source package (0.8.3-1) builds on Wheezy with no modification
beyond installing a couple extra build dependencies; these weren't installed
by "apt-get source xfce4-weather-plugin".

    libxfce4ui-1-dev libsoup2.4-dev xfce4-dev-tools libtool

However, this isn't a process we want to inflict on end-users.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xfce4-weather-plugin depends on:
ii  libc6               2.13-38
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libxfce4util4       4.8.2-1
ii  libxfcegui4-4       4.8.1-5
ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2
ii  xfce4-panel         4.8.6-4

xfce4-weather-plugin recommends no packages.

xfce4-weather-plugin suggests no packages.

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