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[David Clayton <629646@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

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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
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