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

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Thu Sep 13 20:29:46 UTC 2012


On jeu., 2012-09-13 at 19:48 +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> 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? 

Yes.

> 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.
> 
If/when that happens, then we'll remove it.

-- 
Yves-Alexis
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