[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#881225: wicd-daemon: had to install net-tools manually to get wicd working

[Neels Hofmeyr]

Package: wicd-daemon
Version: 1.7.4+tb2-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

after upgrade to Debian 9 I installed wicd-gtk and saw wicd successfully
connecting (ping worked for like two seconds) and then disconnecting again
right away.

Looking at the logs I saw that it complained about 'ifconfig' not being
available. Indeed net-tools was not installed on the system by default.

After I installed net-tools manually to provide ifconfig on the system, wicd
worked again as usual.

So either this is a dependency bug and net-tools should be an unconditional
dependency of wicd-daemon, or wicd somehow doesn't use ifconfig alternatvies
even if those are installed and ifconfig is not.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser          3.115
ii  dbus             1.10.22-0+deb9u1
ii  debconf          1.5.61
ii  ethtool          1:4.8-1+b1
ii  iproute2         4.9.0-1
ii  iputils-ping     3:20161105-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.5-3
ii  lsb-base         9.20161125
ii  net-tools        1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1
ii  psmisc           22.21-2.1+b2
ii  python           2.7.13-2
ii  python-dbus      1.2.4-1+b1
ii  python-gobject   3.22.0-2
ii  python-wicd      1.7.4+tb2-4
ii  wireless-tools   30~pre9-12+b1
ii  wpasupplicant    2:2.4-1+deb9u1

Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
ii  rfkill                     0.5-1+b1
ii  wicd-curses [wicd-client]  1.7.4+tb2-4
ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]     1.7.4+tb2-4

Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
ii  pm-utils  1.4.1-17

Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on:
ii  python         2.7.13-2
ii  python-glade2  2.24.0-5.1
ii  python-gtk2    2.24.0-5.1

Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends:
ii  gksu           2.0.2-9+b1
ii  python-notify  0.1.1-4

Versions of packages wicd-curses depends on:
ii  python        2.7.13-2
ii  python-urwid  1.3.1-2+b1

Versions of packages wicd-curses recommends:
ii  sudo  1.8.19p1-2.1

Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
ii  python  2.7.13-2

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