Control: tags -1 + confirmed 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
