[Bug 882014] Re: Please consider package removal or adding developers

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

I saw this when it was first reported, but didn't comment at the time as
I'm conflicted about it. The user experience is obviously not ideal as
there are frequent crashes. Yet, these crashes don't really fall under
the category of "RC buggy."  There is no risk of  data loss, no security
issues are introduced,  the problems are contained to the program, and
do not lead to an unusable system. There is also no regression potential
as all these issues exist in 11.10 as well.

My personal experience has been that once a day or so (usually coming
back from suspend) it crashes and I simply re-add it without issue. And,
honestly, there's a lot of stuff in universe that is a lot more broken.
The reason it receives such a high volume of bug reports is that it is
being used by many people. It provides functionality that used to be
built into the default desktop and AFAICT is not available elsewhere in
the archive. I, and many other users, will continue to use this despite
the many issues.

The vast majority of these crashes happen when interacting with
libdbusmenu. Maybe a DBus menu developer might be able to provide some
guidance to indicator-weather upstream?

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