conky (1.4.7-0ubuntu1) do not support rss and wireless variables

[Cesare Tirabassi]

Binary package hint: conky

Conky 1.4.7 added support for RSS and Wireless variables:

rss
wireless_essid
wireless_mode
wireless_bitrate
wireless_ap
wireless_link_qual
wireless_link_qual_max
wireless_link_qual_perc
wireless_link_bar

See http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html for a list of all available variables and usage.
This support is by default disabled in the current Ubuntu package.
Can you please enable it?

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I attach a snapshot where the new variables are being displayed.
Note that on my wireless interface (rt2x00) no link quality and bitrate are displayed.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Why do you drop ${misc:Depends}?

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Because its not a default substvars and its not defined in debian/rules (as a matter of fact dpkg-gencontrols complains about it).
I have the impression that this was simply copy&pasted from another package without any valid reason or knowing what it does and simply forgotten there.
It does no harm (beside the warning) but personally I prefer to have a clean package.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

In any case, if it is required to minimise the delta with Debian, this patch do not remove the unused substvar.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

conky (1.4.7-0ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Enable built-in support for rss and wireless variables (LP: #137476):
    - Add --enable-wlan and --enable-rss flags in debian/rules
    - Add libxml2-dev, libcurl4-gnutls-dev and libiw-dev as Build-Depends
      in debian/control

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:57:00 +0200