Bug#726977: gnome-shell-extension-weather: Losing configured city on upgrade

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:34:40 +0200,
Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> a écrit :

> Le lundi 21 octobre 2013 à 09:46 +0200, Laurent Bigonville a écrit :
> > Package: gnome-shell-extension-weather
> > Version: 0~20131020.git30174f2-1
> > Severity: normal
> 
> > I lost all the configured cities after upgrading from
> > 0~20130619.gitf74de79-2 to 0~20131020.git30174f2-1, I guess this is
> > related to the switch libgweather.
> 
> Yes. This side effect of the switch to libgweather was described in
> NEWS.Debian, but unfortunately that latter file did not make it into
> the upload. I am going to fix this.
> 
> Concerning the fact that configuration is lost on upgrade, I am not
> sure this can be fixed, since locations are not represented in the
> same way in the old and the new version of the extension. Are you ok
> if I close this bug, given that the change will be documented in
> NEWS.Debian, or do you insist on forwarding this bug upstream?

Well I guess it would be better to have the configuration being
transferred on upgrade but this is probably not mandatory if we are
warning the user, gnome-shell-extension-weather was not officially part
of wheezy release anyway..

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville