xfce4-weather-plugin version 0.8.6 stopped working

[Toth Zoltan]

Hello.

Since few days xfce4-weather-plugin version 0.8.6 stopped working with no date on an Linux Mint XFCE 18.1 32 bit HP Compaq laptop. Temporary it is fine, mostly not.

[ajgreeny (ajg-charlbury)]

Same here in Xubuntu 16.04 64bit system.
There was an old bug odged at https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8105 about this; could this be a similar problem this time?

[Joe Giampaoli (joegiampaoli)]

Same here on Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian Jessie, no matter what country and city I select it just doesn't seem to connect and retrieve info....

[ajgreeny (ajg-charlbury)]

Just for interest and information, I also have Xubuntu 17.04 as a virtual installation in VBox and the xfce4-weather-plugin works fine in that with version 0.8.9-1 of the plugin.
Seems that it is just the 0.8.6-1 that is the problem.
I have therefore downloaded the 0.8.9-1 version from
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-weather-plugin/0.8.9-0ubuntu1/+build/12025316/+files/xfce4-weather-plugin_0.8.9-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
and that is working without a problem in 16.04 as well, showing the weather as it should according to my settings.
I presume this version will also work in Mint 18.1, though can not guarantee that; must be worth trying.

[Michael Martins (michaelfm21)]

Is it possible for developers to update the package with a patch or update the package version?