Over 12 months now and a bug THAT HAS A WORKING PATCH AVAILABLE has still not been fixed.
I just did a test install of Ubuntu 11.10 and the bug is still there, yet a dopey user like myself was previously able to use the patch files to fix the Australian only file which causes the problem - but the maintainers of this package cannot make this seemingly trivial change. Looks good when I show a Windows user how "great" Linux is and they ask why this bit doesn't work and I tell them that it was reported over 12 months ago - not! Wassup? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libgweather in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629646 Title: Locations using bom.gov.au for forecast data no longer can no longer retrieve forecast data Status in libgweather: Confirmed Status in “libgweather” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: ----------------------------------- Issue Description ----------------------------------- In relation to "weather-applet" and "libgweather" - over the past several months, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has updated its website to deliver a HTML forecast page for a number of locations around Australia. Currently - the <zone> tag from "Locations.xml" is used within the "weather-bom.c" to retrieve information from the appropriate bom.gov.au URL which if successful is then parsed in the "bom_parse" function. With the new HTML forecast pages for various locations however, the data can not be successfully parsed and instead the message "Forecast not currently available for this location." shows up on the Forecast tab of weather-applet. ----------------------------------- Area of Interest ----------------------------------- Within "weather-bom.c" - the following line of code points to URLs (depending on location) that now have HTML forecast data rather than plain text... url = g_strdup_printf ("http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?%s.txt";, loc->zone + 1); ----------------------------------- Suggested Fix ----------------------------------- I suggest/propose that the URL above be changed to point to plain text documents on the BOM FTP server (ftp://ftp2.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/) with the appropriate weather station zone. e.g. for Sydney (Zone IDN10064) - currently the code would point to: http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDN10064.txt However this is now a HTML forecast, which causes the issue noted above... by pointing the code to: ftp://ftp2.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDN10064.txt The plain text forecast can be used without any modification to the other functions/aspects of the code. ----------------------------------- Patches - Untested! ----------------------------------- Please see the attached "weather-bom.c" which includes the suggested fix (i.e. patched version). Note it will need to be/should be tested by someone who knows how to recompile the libgweather source. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- System information --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Release: 10.04 libgweather-common: Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/linux/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libgweather/+bug/629646/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
