Bug#418990: gweather applet does not work anymore

[David Basden]

Hi, 

I ran the same problem (libgnomevfs2-extra was not installed, so
gweather-applet stopped working).

I don't have g-d-e installed (evolution + epiphany + totem etc are
really a lot of space if I don't use them), so I didn't get the
dep for libgnomevfs2-extra.

If libgnomevfs2-extra isn't installed, the weather applet can be
added to a panel, configured, and seems to run. When the VFS http
call fails, it sits in 'Updating' and eventually fails. It's
really hard to tell that this is a packaging/package installation
issue.

Although libgnomevfs2-extra in the recommends for gnome-applets 
(at 2.18.0-3) it's really hard to tell that this is actually a
dependancy for gweather-applet. Looking quickly at the gnome-applets
bug list, many of the gweather bugs listed are just the lack of this
package being installed.

libgnomevfs2-extra is 540k installed, with the http module being 110k
of this. Could libgnomevfs2-extra be added as a dependency to
gnome-applets, or libgnomevfs2-extra be rolled back into libgnomevfs2-0?

If this is a bad idea, or not possible, could there at least be a
README.Debian for gnome-applets pointing out the requirement for
libgnomevfs2-extra to be installed for gweather-applet to work? This
was the first thing I looked for to see if there was a known fix,
and I'm guessing that it would cut down on related bug reports. At
the moment, there is no way AFAICT to find out what's going on
without searching the Debian bug database (which most people probably
aren't going to get to).

Thanks,

David