Bug#648308: aweather: description should mention that it is limited to USA

Michael Below mbelow at antithese.de
Thu Nov 10 13:46:08 UTC 2011


Package: aweather
Version: 0.5.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I just installed aweather, looking for a tool to show me weather
data for Berlin, Germany. After installation I found that the main 
data source is a US-only radar network. aweather shows a globe,
but the only part of the globe that is painted with data is the
USA.

Please adjust the description so that people can see this
limitation before installing the program. Suggestion:

"AWeather is an advanced weather program which is designed to be
used by weather enthusiasts. AWeather is not a weather dockapp
that simply displays a pre-computed forecast. It is designed to be
an easy-to-use program that integrates weather data for the USA,
mainly from the NEXRAD network, in a simple unified interface."

Thanks for your work!

Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aweather depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.2.0-2   
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.5-7   
ii  libc6                     2.13-21   
ii  libcairo2                 1.10.2-6.1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.8.0-3   
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.7-2   
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.24.0-1  
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  7.11-6    
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.28.8-1  
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    7.11-6    
ii  libgrits0                 0.5.2-1   
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.7-1  
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.29.4-2  
ii  librsl1                   1.42-2    
ii  libsoup2.4-1              2.34.3-1  

aweather recommends no packages.

aweather suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information





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