Bug#726267: gnome-panel: Clock does not display weather anymore

Mon Oct 14 00:20:47 UTC 2013

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 3.4.2.1-6
Severity: important

  The little weather icon does not show anymore.
I reviewed all the old bugs about the time zone matching
the location and tried all that, but still no weather icon.
The removal of the gweather applet in the update to
gnome-applets 3.4.1-4

    * Disable weather applet, it is no longer compatible with libgweather 3.8
    where upstream dropped GWeatherXML.
    * Removeweather applet from package description.

and most recent gnome-panel update to 3.4.2.1-6

    * Add debian/patches/clock-applet-modern-gnome-tech.patch
      - ports to gsettings, newer gweather, etc...
    * Bump build dependency on libgweather-3-dev to >= 3.5.1 for above patch
    * Add debian/patches/drop-gweather-xml-include.patch

may have had something to do with breaking the weather portion of clock.
The net effect is I am left with no weather information from GNOME.

    I'd be happy to trace this given some direction, I have
the source code and can more or less see what is _supposed_ to
happen but .xsession-errors / syslog don't tell me anything 
about why the intended action is not happening.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.10.11-1inter02-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gconf-service              3.2.6-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.8.2.2-2
ii  gnome-menus                3.8.0-2
ii  gnome-panel-data           3.4.2.1-6
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.17-93
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libcamel-1.2-43            3.8.5-2
ii  libdconf1                  0.16.1-1
ii  libecal-1.2-15             3.8.5-2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-17      3.8.5-2
ii  libgconf-2-4               3.2.6-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.28.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.36.4-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-2       3.4.2-2
ii  libgnome-menu-3-0          3.8.0-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.8.4-1
ii  libgweather-3-3            3.8.2-3
ii  libical0                   0.48-2
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.8-2
ii  libnspr4                   2:4.10-1
ii  libnspr4-0d                2:4.10-1
ii  libnss3                    2:3.15.1-1
ii  libnss3-1d                 2:3.15.1-1
ii  libpanel-applet-4-0        3.4.2.1-6
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.32.5-5+b1
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.36.4-2
ii  libsecret-1-0              0.15-2
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1               2.42.2-6
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.8.0.2-1
ii  libtelepathy-glib0         0.22.0-1
ii  libwnck-3-0                3.4.7-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxext6                   2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.4.1-1

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                3.9.91-1
ii  evolution-data-server   3.8.5-2
ii  gnome-applets           3.4.1-4
ii  gnome-control-center    1:3.4.3.1-5+b3
ii  gnome-icon-theme        3.8.3-1
ii  gnome-session           3.4.2.1-4
ii  gnome-session-fallback  3.4.2.1-4
ii  gvfs                    1.16.3-1+b1

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.8.4-1
ii  gnome-user-guide                      3.8.2-1
ii  nautilus                              3.4.2-2
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           297-1
ii  yelp                                  3.8.1-2

-- no debconf information