Conky 1.8.1 does not work with apcupsd

[Brian Derr]

In attempting to setup conky and report information about my UPS battery I discovered that there is a known issue with 1.8.1 and apcupsd. I found a patch on openSUSE message boards: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/unreviewed-how-faq/464737-easy-configuring-conky-conkyconf.html#post2380907

I applied the patch and compiled the source and can confirm that it works.

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[Vincent Cheng (vincent-c)]

This is a known bug upstream. I'm not sure whether reverting the apcupsd code to 1.8.0 is the best way to fix this bug, but on the other hand, upstream isn't being very responsive either.

[Brian Derr (bderrly)]

I agree that a "downgrade" patch isn't ideal, but as you mentioned the bug report upstream hasn't really had any traction for some time. That is what prompted me to request a new release of the debian package.

[Vincent Cheng (vincent-c)]

All right then, I'll release an updated conky package with this patch in Debian (it should make it into Ubuntu before Debian Import Freeze).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package conky - 1.8.1-6

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conky (1.8.1-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches:
    - Add fix-apcupsd.patch: fix apcupsd support. (LP: #897495)
    - Add fix-update-interval.patch: use monotonic time when calculating the
      update interval. (Closes: #474372, #473993)
  * Fix various formatting issues in debian/copyright.
  * Change transitional "conky" package's dependencies to
    conky-std | conky-cli | conky-all.
  * Add doc-base file for conky-cli and conky-std.
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:45:49 +0000