Figaro's Password Manager 2 was my favorite password management tool.
It is GTK2-application to preserve and manage your pairs of ID and password secretly with cipher.
To my regret, its Debian package was orphaned many years ago and
I thought it was time to switch to another password management tool.
But besides finding a good alternative choice, I had a big problem: migration.
Figaro's Password Manager 2 does have data export function, but only in special XML format.
If you want to move your data to a different application, you have to change the format of the data even if the application can import the data.
As my next password management tool is KeePass2 or KeePassXC, I need a XML to CSV data converter.
So, I have been developing the conversion tool very slowly and finally, completed.
Today, I published it on GitHub, which I named fpm2_csv.
The history of the code is quite embarrassing, but very few people in the world would be interested in it, that doesn't matter.
All the conversion processes are written in XSLT. During the development, I feel exciting that you can even write a process to escape double-quote, comma, and line feed characters for CSV format only with XSLT functions.
Recently, the 11th point release of Debian 11 has been announced, and it will be the last one. For I am still maintaining one Debian 11 machine, I am starting to prepare its upgrade to Debian 12. Because it is a dual boot machine, I must not forget about the change of grub OS probing. Before I ugrade, I have to add GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false to / etc/default/grub, or I lose grub menu for Windows OS. Another thing that impacts me is the change of gnome-text-editor. In Debian 11, gnome-text-editor is a kind of alias of gedit controlled under the Debian alternative system with update-alternatives command. On the other hand, a new package gnome-text-editor appears in Debian 12, and it is a different thing from gedit. For I am an uim user, I was confused when I tried to use launch a Japanese input method via uim on gnome-text-editor in Debian 12, for it wouldn't work as in Debian 11. Yes, these two things are important reminder to me.
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