Debian weather bug

[Greg Marks]

I have a bug report but am not sure which package it should be filed
against. The Weather Report application, version 1.24.1, is affected,
as is the weather reported by the Clock application, version 1.24.1, in
the MATE desktop environment. Neither reports the correct weather, and
the log files contain the error "Failed to get METAR data." I suspect
the issue is related to a URL change described in these two threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/179zm7o/for_those_of_you_who_made_metar_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/179bmcj/metar_map_issues/

How should this be reported?

Best regards,
Greg Marks

[gene heskett]

I would say its the app, gkrelmm's weather plugin continues o work
normally here and AFAIK has not been updated since stretch.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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[Greg Marks]

> I have a bug report but am not sure which package it should be filed
> against. The Weather Report application, version 1.24.1, is affected,
> as is the weather reported by the Clock application, version 1.24.1, in
> the MATE desktop environment. Neither reports the correct weather, and
> the log files contain the error "Failed to get METAR data." I suspect
> the issue is related to a URL change described in these two threads:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/179zm7o/for_those_of_you_who_made_metar_live/
> https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/179bmcj/metar_map_issues/
>
> How should this be reported?
>
> Best regards,
> Greg Marks

Update: the following are relevant lines from /var/log/syslog:

Oct 19 18:10:09 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Failed to get METAR data: 404 Not Found.
Oct 19 18:10:09 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Failed to get IWIN forecast data: 404 Not Found
Oct 19 18:10:09 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Source ID 50501 was not found when attempting to remove it
Oct 19 18:14:54 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Failed to get METAR data: 404 Not Found.
Oct 19 18:14:54 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Source ID 50562 was not found when attempting to remove it
Oct 19 18:23:55 debian clock-applet[3927]: Failed to get METAR data: 404 Not Found.

Note that two different applications are affected by this bug.

Best regards,
Greg Marks

[Greg Marks]

> > I have a bug report but am not sure which package it should be filed
> > against. The Weather Report application, version 1.24.1, is affected,
> > as is the weather reported by the Clock application, version 1.24.1, in
> > the MATE desktop environment. Neither reports the correct weather, and
> > the log files contain the error "Failed to get METAR data." I suspect
> > the issue is related to a URL change described in these two threads:
> >
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/179zm7o/for_those_of_you_who_made_metar_live/
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/179bmcj/metar_map_issues/
> >
> > How should this be reported?
> >
>

> Update: the following are relevant lines from /var/log/syslog:
>
> Oct 19 18:10:09 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Failed to get METAR data: 404 Not Found.
> Oct 19 18:10:09 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Failed to get IWIN forecast data: 404 Not Found
> Oct 19 18:10:09 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Source ID 50501 was not found when attempting to remove it
> Oct 19 18:14:54 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Failed to get METAR data: 404 Not Found.
> Oct 19 18:14:54 debian mateweather-app[3922]: Source ID 50562 was not found when attempting to remove it
> Oct 19 18:23:55 debian clock-applet[3927]: Failed to get METAR data: 404 Not Found.
>
> Note that two different applications are affected by this bug.

The latest upgrade of the packages libmateweather-common and
libmateweather1 (both to version 1.24.1-1+deb11u1) has fixed the
problem; the two weather applications are now functioning properly.

Best regards,
Greg Marks