Bug#812224: IndexError: list index out of range

[Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>]

Package: wicd-curses
Version: 1.7.3-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

the new version of wicd is rather crashy.

> ERROR:dbus.connection:Exception in handler for D-Bus signal:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 230, in maybe_handle_message
>     self._handler(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 97, in wrapper
>     return func(*args, **kargs)
>   File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 850, in update_netlist
>     self.wiredCB.get_body().set_list(wiredL)
>   File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 469, in set_list
>     wired.ReadWiredNetworkProfile(self.get_selected_profile())
>   File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 535, in get_selected_profile
>     return self.theList[loc]
> IndexError: list index out of range


This happens every time, without doing anything at all.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0f (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages wicd-curses depends on:
ii  python-urwid  1.3.1-2
pn  python:any    <none>
ii  wicd-daemon   1.7.3-2

Versions of packages wicd-curses recommends:
ii  sudo  1.8.15-1.1

wicd-curses suggests no packages.

Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser          3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus             1.10.6-1
ii  debconf          1.5.58
ii  ethtool          1:4.2-1
ii  iproute2         4.3.0-1
ii  iputils-ping     3:20121221-5+b2
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.3-5
ii  lsb-base         9.20160110
ii  net-tools        1.60+git20150829.73cef8a-2
ii  psmisc           22.21-2.1+b1
ii  python-dbus      1.2.0-3
ii  python-gobject   3.18.2-2
ii  python-wicd      1.7.3-2
pn  python:any       <none>
ii  wireless-tools   30~pre9-8
ii  wpasupplicant    2.3-2.3

Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
ii  rfkill  0.5-1

Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
pn  pm-utils  <none>

Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
pn  python:any  <none>

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