On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 09:59:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 19 October 2016 08:38:29 Darac Marjal wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 08:01:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Wednesday 19 October 2016 05:14:46 Darac Marjal wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:09:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >On Wednesday 19 October 2016 00:33:29 Peter Ludikovsky wrote:
>> >> When you visit the URL it's fetching there's a notice that the
>> >> service is no longer available:
>> >> "In Accordance with NWS Service Change Notice 16-16 this service
>> >> has been discontinued."
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> /peter
>> >
>> >And replaced by what?
>> >
>> >I did find that quoted phrase in my searching, but not that Change
>> > Notice 16-16. itself.
>>
>> Really? I searched for "NWS Service Change Notice 16-16" (no
>> quotes) and this
>> www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm was the first
>> result. It states that weather.gov now supplies all the appropriate
>> information, so weather.noaa.gov is no longer needed.
>
>I khexedited the deamon, found that address string and changed it to
>http://www.weather.gov. but on a restart, that gives a 404 error
> about once a minute. I'll go recheck that weather.gov site & see if
> I can get any schmardter.
There was much ballyhoo a while ago about Debian distributing the
"preferred modification source" (or words to that effect). The
argument was, IIRC, to do with "minified" javascript files; that is,
javascript files which have had all unnecessary whitespace removed so
that they download a little quicker in the browser. It was argued that
no-one in their right mind would try to actually work with the
minified javascript, and that Debian should be distributing the
original file and converting it to a minified version at "compile
time".
The same goes for just about all Debian packages: what's in the *.deb
is not necessarily the "preferred modification source". In the case of
an executable program, there will be C (or C++ or Perl or Python or
Ada or ...) source code which is compiled to produce that executable.
Source code which Debian uses. Source code which Debian DISTRIBUTES
freely. Source code which you can download yourself, modify yourself,
compile yourself.
What I'm trying to say is: don't go modifying the executable! Edit the
source code and recompile it!
And if you want to know what changes to make, gkrellweather already
has a bug against it (#863347 https://bugs.debian.org/836347) which
includes a patch fixing the problem.
Excellent, but will it get to the repo's? And I'd assume the
standalone "metar" app will need the same fixing?
Well, in theory, once bug 863347 is fixed, yes, it'll get released at
some point. The bug is marked as "grave" AND has a patch, so it
shouldn't be too hard to get it into the next release of Debian
(stretch). With regards to Jessie, well it's not a security-related
change so it probably wouldn't be released, but it may well be
back-ported, but I don't know what the policy is there (does someone
need to request the backport, for example?)
With regards to 'metar', that, too, has a bug against it (#833655
https://bugs.debian.org/833655), which is marked as "fixed in metar
20061030.1-2.2"). So, again, that should be released in stretch, too).
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