[MIR] gnome-weather

[Jeremy Bícha]

Availability
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Co-maintained and in sync with Debian GNOME.
Built for all supported architectures.

Rationale
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It is a simple standalone app to show the weather.

If installed, it adds the weather status to the clock menu in GNOME Shell. (This was introduced in GNOME 3.24 and is available in Ubuntu 17.04+.)

The app optionally uses GNOME's geolocation services powered by geoclue. This can be enabled or disabled from GNOME Settings>Privacy>Location Services. GNOME shows an indicator in the right of the top bar when Location Services is in use.

GNOME Weather has been part of core GNOME since GNOME 3.20 (early 2016).

Security
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No known security issues

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/gnome-weather
https://launchpad.net/gnome-weather/+cve

Uses gjs/mozjs which the Ubuntu Security Team reluctantly accepted into main for gnome-shell
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#mozjs

Quality assurance
=================
- The Ubuntu Desktop bugs team will need to subscribe to this package

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-weather
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=gnome-weather
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3A"gnome-weather"

No upstream tests or autopkgtests.

Dependencies
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No universe binary dependencies

Standards compliance
====================
4.1.2
debhelper compat 11, minimal dh7 style rules

Maintenance
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- Actively developed upstream. Last release was 3.26.0 in September.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-weather/log

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-weather

Background information
======================
The app is minimally feature complete.

The weather data itself comes via libgweather which is written in C and uses libsoup and has been in main for years. I believe the default provider is METAR.

See libgweather/weather-metar.c and libgweather/gweather-weather.c
https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar
https://www.weather.gov/disclaimer

This MIR was also discussed at
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-June/004988.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

assigning to desktop team, if it's wanted in main.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

There has been not further update for too long, for now we consider it invalid.
Feel free to re-open if there is effort backing it up and motivation to bring it to main.