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John T (jt252) wrote : Re: [Bug 1918002] Re: [SRU] xfce4-weather-plugin 0.10.2

Sorry to hear that, I did not have any issues. I felt that it was
idiot-proof enough that I was not able to break it.

John...

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 7:10 AM Fixitman Arizona <email address hidden>
wrote:

> The 0.10.2 works for me on Xubuntu 20.04.1, however it was a real pain to
> try to find a way to install it (Luckily someone at another distro made a
> deb package that worked with proper dependencies from an rpm file?)
> Otherwise it would not build on my system (I was unwilling to install a ton
> of development files other junk and spend hours messing with it, as a
> typical user.)
> However, mine doesn't work properly on a vertical panel after a recent
> update (can't remember all the details) on hover, tooltips don't show up
> and the panel flickers.
> This only occurs on a vertical panel, on a horizontal (bottom) panel it
> works fine. (Places panel plugin external does the same thing, if that
> helps, all else is OK.) I fault xfce 4.14 not that 4.16 is any better, more
> bugs if anything. Fix one thing and another thing breaks!
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1918002
>
> Title:
> [SRU] xfce4-weather-plugin 0.10.2
>
> Status in xfce4-weather-plugin package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in xfce4-weather-plugin source package in Focal:
> Fix Released
> Status in xfce4-weather-plugin source package in Groovy:
> Fix Released
> Status in xfce4-weather-plugin source package in Hirsute:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> [Impact]
>
> * The weather plugin shows "No Data" and he following messages are
> displayed in .xsession-errors:
> (wrapper-2.0:2771): weather-WARNING **: 06:47:41.228: Download of
> weather data failed with HTTP Status Code 404, Reason phrase: Not Found
> weather-Message: 06:47:51.428: getting
> https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/1.9/?lat=37.092022&lon=-84.604108&msl=298
>
> * The met.no sunrise API version 1.9, used by xfce4-weather-plugin
> versions prior to 0.10.2, expired on 2021-03-01.
>
> * Ubuntu 21.04 is unaffected, as xfce4-weather-plugin 0.11.0 includes
> the newer API
>
> * Affected supported releases include: 20.04, 20.10
>
> [Test Case]
>
> * Add the weather plugin to the Xfce panel.
>
> * Right-click on the plugin and select Preferences to configure it.
>
> * After configuring the plugin, click on it to show the Weather Report
> dialog.
> * With version 0.10.1 and older, "Currently no data available." is
> displayed.
> * With version 0.10.2 and newer, the weather forecast is displayed.
>
> * Verify that the weather forecast works with the newer version by
> right-clicking on the plugin and selecting "Refresh".
>
> [Where problems could occur]
>
> * None. The plugin is currently non-functional.
>
> [0.10.2 Release Notes]
>
> - weather-icon: fix use-after-free in get_user_icons_dir
> - Fix GTimeVal deprecation
> - Update copyright/bugzilla URLs
> - Switch to the 2.0 API
> - Add basic GitLab pipeline
> - Bug #16717: Move from exo-csource to xdt-csource
> - Fix unprintable character in summary subtitle (bug #16394)
> - Improve contrast in weather report, similar to GTK2 + Adwaita (bug
> #15806)
> - Enable keyboard scrolling in Details pane (bug #15912)
> - Support solarnoon and solarmidnight (bug #15771)
> - Fix day/night calculation (bug #16091)
> - Translation Updates:
> Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
> (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern
> Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian,
> Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian,
> Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay,
> Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish,
> Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian,
> Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
>
> https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-
> plugin/-/commit/c553c939ad17e524a494a189f70ae35c1e734f57
>
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