NOAA weather URL no longer valid

[Elliot Kendall]

The included perl script, GrabWeather, pulls its weather data from http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded. However, per the message at that URL, that web service was disabled as of August 3rd 2016. Now any attempt to fetch weather information produces the following error:

404 Not Found at /usr/share/gkrellm/GrabWeather line 52.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

If found a corresponding bug report in Debian, and it looks like this is fixed in gkrellweather 2.0.8-2.1 which has been synced to Ubuntu Zesty. (I haven't verified this).

However, this bug seems rather significant but the patch rather small. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, the patch can be applied via the SRU Procedure [1]. (I might be able to help out with preparing a debdiff build, if this sounds interesting.)

 [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

[Elliot Kendall (elliotkendall)]

Yup, I built the package from Zesty and can confirm it fixes the issue. Thanks!

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Changelog confirms fixed in Ubuntu version 2.0.8-2.1