2012/9/13 Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petri...@gmail.com> > 2012/9/13 Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@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 -- Epsilon http://wiki.debian.org/DanielEcheverry http://www.rinconinformatico.net http://enchulatucelu.com http://www.todopdf.net http://www.fitnessdeportes.com http://www.dragonjar.org Linux user: #477840 Debian user
