Bug#828694: O: gnome-shell-extension-weather -- weather extension for GNOME Shell

[Sébastien Villemot]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org

I am orphaning the gnome-shell-extension-weather package.

The package description is:
 gnome-shell-extension-weather is a simple extension for displaying weather
 conditions and forecasts in GNOME Shell, featuring support for multiple
 locations, an easy way of selecting locations, and a settings panel through
 gnome-shell-extension-prefs. The weather data are fetched from Yahoo! Weather,
 and include forecasts for up to five days.

The prospective maintainer should be aware of the history of the package:

 * initially it was following the upstream version by Neroth
   (https://github.com/Neroth/gnome-shell-extension-weather), which was at that
   time fetching data from Yahoo! weather.

 * then Neroth decided to move to libgweather. But that change meant a
   significant restriction of the number of cities for which weather forecast
   was available (see #726977)

 * therefore the package started tracking another upstream, from jenslody
   (https://github.com/jenslody/gnome-shell-extension-openweather), which
   continued maintaining the Yahoo! weather version.

 * then jenslody changed the weather provided to openweathermap.org, and later
   added forecast.io as an alternative source. This is the point where we are
   now.

 * in the meantime, my understanding is that libgweather was improved, and that
   it provides forecasts for many more cities. So it may make sense to move
   back to the Neroth version of the extension, for better integration with the
   rest of Gnome. It's up to the new maintainer to assess the situation and
   make a decision.

Cheers,

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