Bug#810882: jessie-pu: package gnome-shell-extension-weather/0~20151125.gitccaa1eb-1~deb8u1
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On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 11:07 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> I'd like to push a new upstream release of gnome-shell-extension-weather in jessie.
>
> This package is a Gnome Shell extension (installed by default with Gnome
> through metapackages) that fetches weather information from a third-party site
> (openweathermap.org).
>
> The API of the website has changed since the release of jessie.
>
> First, an API key must now be entered by the user: this prompted a previous p-u
> (0~20140924.git7e28508-1+deb8u1) to warn the use about that.
>
> But the API change turned out to be more important than I initially thought: it
> is currently impossible to add a new city location with the jessie version of
> extension (see #804505).
>
> Backporting minimal fixes to the version in jessie is difficult (if possible at
> all), so I'd like to upload a new upstream version (which has been sitting in
> testing for one month now).
Even the filtered debdiff is much larger than I'd like. Hurrah for
renaming / re-casing variable names and moving stuff around. :-(
Assuming that the resulting package has been tested in Jessie, please go
ahead.
Regards,
Adam
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