(Update libgweather to 3.36.2) Weather forecast and info is not available anymore

[Amr Ibrahim]

[Impact]

The weather forecast is not available since one week now. Also, the weather info is gone from gnome-shell.

The weather service provider retired their old API.
https://developer.yr.no/news/important-changes-to-locationforecast-and-nowcast/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgweather/-/blob/gnome-3-36/NEWS

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Version 3.36.2
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This version switches the yr.no backend to use met.no instead. Please note
that this backport is only meant as a compatibility layer. Where at all
possible, the newer libgweather 40 should be used as applications cannot
fully comply with the met.no ToS otherwise.

[Test case]

- gnome-weather shows the weather forecast
- gnome-shell shows the weather forecast in the calendar menu

[Regression potential]

- Weather forecast is totally broken now and can't be more broken.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: libgweather-3-16 3.36.1-1~ubuntu20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-44.50~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-44-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 7 09:54:52 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-26 (314 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libgweather
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Duke (duke1995)]

See also: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgweather/-/issues/82

[NecLimDul (neclimdul)]

"libgweather 3.36.2 is published"

Seems this is fixed in the latest 3.36 release
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgweather/-/blob/a18ae04879704e65c0ac858cbbfa451a22e8745c/NEWS

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Wazhai (wazhai)]

Will this be fixed for focal LTS too? Weather from libgweather has been completely broken since the beginning of March 2021.

[Max Harmathy (max-harmathy)]

This issue is spamming the log with messages

Failed to get Yr.no forecast data: 404 Not Found

[ehsan (ehshi)]

is this going to be published for focal ever?

[Sam Brightman (sambrightman)]

This release was made specifically to help out older LTS distributions which cannot migrate to newer libgweather. What needs to be done to get it into 20.04?

[Noname (anonymous.noname)]

Good day.
As I understand, I should somehow change libgweather to 3.36.2. Is there any instruction manual for that? I can see some tarball in repo https://download.gnome.org/sources/libgweather/3.36/libgweather-3.36.2.tar.xz but have no idea how to proceed.

[Noname (anonymous.noname)]

Found this guy, thanks him - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/libgweather