Bug#816076: wicd-daemon: upgrade reconfigures static ethernet interface, and kills ssh sessions.

[Andrew Vaughan <andrewjvaughan@gmail.com>]

Hi Vincent.

I was just about to update this bug after purging wicd today.

On 20 April 2016 at 19:58, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
>
> Probably the same bug as bug 557156 (from 2009!). The problem is that
> wicd-daemon tries to reconfigure the ethernet interface even though
> it is configured not to connect to it automatically (which should be
> and is the default). A workaround is to remove eth0 from the wicd
> configuration.
>

As far as I am aware, I have never touched the wicd config files.  And a
package shouldn't ship with a config that will break an otherwise valid
configuration belonging to a different package on package upgrade.
Certainly not without _big_ warnings, and certainly not for a package
pulled in by recommendations from a relatively common metapackage.
(I included a copy of the relevant config files at the bottom of the
original bug report).

Now for the new stuff.  Today I removed wicd and related packages.
I'm pretty sure I purged the config files.  To cut a long story short,
purging wicd and related packages resulted in eth0 having it's IPv4
address removed.  Eth0 was still up with a IPv6 address.  But the
machine was no longer reachable over IPv4.  Probably just a
different variant of the same underlying buggy behaviour.

Thanks for your work on Debian.

Andrew V.