Bug#839959: mate-applets: Unable to get weather information about my city and no knowledge where the settings/preferences are saved.

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: mate-applets
Version: 1.16.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I tried to set weather for the city but failed. It shows my city but
doesn't update the weather. I followed all the instructions at yelp
"help:mateweather/mateweather-prefs" but that didn't help. The
man-page itself for mateweather is obsolete and the stamp on the
manpage says 2002 when it should be 2012 probably. I also tried to
find if there is/was a section 8 man page but was unsuccessful in that
as well. I even looked at bugs listed upstream and the wiki but was
unsuccessful at finding more information from both those sources as
well as Arch wiki.

┌─[shirish at debian] - [~] - [10195]
└─[$] man 8 mateweather

No manual entry for mateweather in section 8

It doesn't seem that it is being worked upon. See
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20weather

Look forward to a fix soonish.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental'), (1,
'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-applets depends on:
ii  gir1.2-mate-panel          1.16.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.22.0-1
ii  gvfs                       1.30.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.24-3
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcpufreq0                008-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.10.10-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.108-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.36.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.50.0-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.22.1-1
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-1     3.22.0-1
ii  libgtop-2.0-10             2.34.1-2
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libiw30                    30~pre9-11
ii  libmate-panel-applet-4-1   1.16.0-1
ii  libmateweather1            1.16.0-1
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.40.3-2
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.40.3-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.105-16
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libupower-glib3            0.99.4-4
ii  libwnck-3-0                3.20.1-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.4+dfsg1-2
ii  mate-applets-common        1.16.0-1
ii  mate-panel                 1.16.0-1
ii  python                     2.7.11-2
ii  python-gi                  3.22.0-1

Versions of packages mate-applets recommends:
ii  cpufrequtils         008-1
ii  mate-media           1.16.0-1
ii  mate-polkit          1.16.0-1
ii  mate-system-monitor  1.16.0-1

mate-applets suggests no packages.

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