config migration from 1.7.1b2 to 1.7.1b3 can insert spurious square brackets

[Tomka-w]

Hi,

I bumped wicd in Gentoo to 1.7.1b3 (well, r669 actually). Users started to upgrade and they report that network settings read from the old config are parsed wrongly: See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391397
I can not reproduce this myself, but appearently when reading the old config a pair of square brackets is inserted around the password and ssid. Consequently the connection fails until the brackets are removed.

[David Paleino (dpaleino)]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:14:26 -0000, Tomka-w wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Hi,

Hello,

> I bumped wicd in Gentoo to 1.7.1b3 (well, r669 actually). Users started to
> upgrade and they report that network settings read from the old config are
> parsed wrongly: See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391397 I can not
> reproduce this myself, but appearently when reading the old config a pair of
> square brackets is inserted around the password and ssid. Consequently the
> connection fails until the brackets are removed.

I can't reproduce this either, but I'm well aware of it. I will fix it before
1.7.1 final is released, even though currently I don't have any idea of what
causes it. But I will investigate further :)

Kindly,
David

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[David Paleino (dpaleino)]

Hello,
I had reported in Debian that this was somehow fixed by:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wicd-devel/wicd/experimental/revision/671

I'm thus marking as "fix committed". Please set it to "Confirmed" if you can still reproduce it with latest bzr.

Thanks,
David

[Tomka-w (tomka-w)]

No complaints from Gentoo users. I'd say it is fixed. Thanks.