[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365473: Bug#365473: wpasupplicant: configuration file format could be less strict

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

tags 365473 + wontfix
thanks

On Monday 26 September 2011, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) wrote:
> > Package: wpasupplicant
> > Version: 0.4.8-3
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> >    Maybe the configuration parser could be less strict. The following
> > for instance is invalid, just because of the spaces around "=":
> >
> > network = {
> >     ssid = "mynetwork"
> >     psk = "wootwoot"
> > }
> >
> >    Having spaces around "=" improves readability and I do not think it
> > would be hard supporting that.
> >   
> 
> Can you provide a patch to upstream to implement that?
> 
> Personally, I do not think its worth any effort, readability is fine and 
> the syntax is well documented (I stress, that is my opinion only).

This is no change we will implement for the Debian package; tagging as 
wontfix.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann