As discussed in #ubuntu-devel with jbicha on September 8th @ 15:22:18, I am adopting this bug specifically to SRU libmateweather since libgweather has now ben SRU'd against #1620557.
<flexiondotorg> jbicha, How to proceed with SRUs for libgweather and libmateweather? <jbicha> flexiondotorg: yes, the libgweather xenial sru is already in the unapproved queue <flexiondotorg> OK, So no problem for me to remove libgweather from #1616533 then? <jbicha> flexiondotorg: sure, go ahead <flexiondotorg> jbicha, Thanks. ** Tags removed: precise trusty ** Description changed: - As reported at http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/gnome-weather- - forecast-not-available + The provider which libmateweather was using was shut down in August. - The weather forecast provider used by the GNOME Weather app discontinued - or moved its service. + We need to update libmateweather in Xenial to new upstream micro + release, 1.12.2, which switched to a new METAR data provider. + + Impact: this affects all libmateweather-using applications, makes them + unable to retrieve weather data. + + Test Case: make sure Weather applet in mate-applets is able to display + weather information. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1616533 Title: weather.noaa.gov was shut down - MATE unable to retrieve weather forecasts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libgweather/+bug/1616533/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
