Package: flightgear
Version: 1:2018.3.2+dfsg-2

Dear maintainers,

Very recently, noaa.gov switched to https, which makes flightgear unable
to download METAR data, thus unable to provide 'live' weather conditions
for the simulation.

I have created a merge request on salsa [1] with a possible, albeit not
ideal, solution to the problem.  Since this is about a hardcoded URL in
the source, which might potentially require rebuilds, and since we are
close to the freeze for buster, I decided to share this with you sooner
than later, so that you have more time to evaluate.

(as noted in the merge request, the flightgear forum has suggestions of
fixes that do not require a rebuild, but I haven't checked that they
actually work.  I did check that the merge request fixes the problem)

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/flightgear/merge_requests/1

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