Comment 39 for bug 964365

What I did so far with the one installed from the repositories is I changed get_sun_data to return some fixed values.
This was a homemade fix as I needed the weather information and did not find this bug at the time.
You could do this possibly when earthtools.org is not available to avoid the icon stuck to yellow sun?
Though clearly the best solution wold be to use pyephem as stated above as it does not seem to me that the mentioned website will be available in the future.