Bug#973594: waybar: Unknown module clock

[Zidagar]

Package: waybar
Version: 0.9.4-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

after the 0.9.4-1 update the clock module stopped to work with error:

[warning] module clock: Unknown module: clock

I've not found any upstream bug report, I don't know if is a build problem or a
bug in the software.
I'll try to investigate and rebuild the package to find the problem.

Zidagar



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages waybar depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1
ii libc6 2.31-3
ii libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 18.10.20180917~bzr490+repack1-1
ii libgcc-s1 10.1.0-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.4-1
ii libglibmm-2.4-1v5 2.64.2-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1
ii libgtk-layer-shell0 0.3.0-1
ii libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 3.24.0-2
ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3
ii libmpdclient2 2.18-1
ii libnl-3-200 3.4.0-1
ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.4.0-1
ii libpulse0 12.2-4+deb10u1
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.1-2
ii libspdlog1 1:1.5.0+ds-5
ii libstdc++6 10.1.0-2
ii libudev1 241-7~deb10u4
ii libwayland-client0 1.18.0-2~exp1.1

waybar recommends no packages.

Versions of packages waybar suggests:
ii fonts-font-awesome 5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-2
ii libappindicator3-1 0.4.92-7
ii sway 1.5-5

-- no debconf information

[Birger Schacht]

Hi Zidagar,

I have removed the `clock` module, see the explanation in the
README.Debian file:

> Debians waybar package comes at the moment without the 'clock'
module. > Upstreams clock module uses a third party library for timezone
> management which is not packaged for Debian and will be replaced at
> some point.
> For details see: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/668
> You can use the custom module to simulate most if not all of the clock
> module functionality (https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-
> Custom).

cheers,
Birger

[Laurent Arnoud]

Hello Birger,

Upstream released the [0.9.6][1] version that include a fix regarding the clock
dependency.

On Debian we could remove the clock removal and have a simple clock module
without timezone management. This will also avoid failure on first setup with
the default configuration I think.

Cheers,
Laurent

[1]: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/releases/tag/0.9.6

--
Laurent

[Tobias Bengfort]

In case someone is searching for a simple replacement, you can use the
custom module:

"custom/clock": {
"exec": "date +'%a %x %R'",
"interval": 60,
}