I am encountering this bug too in oracular, and it is breaking a lot of my scripts. A workaround is to use /usr/bin/printf instead of the bash builtin until this is fixed. I do not understand why the Debian folks reverted the severity from critical to normal as this is breaking external programs. Moving severity to critical.
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #1078556 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078556 ** Also affects: bash (Debian) via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078556 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2083131 Title: Bash's builtin command "printf" has a grave functionality bug - fails to print the format like "%.2f .1" Status in bash package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in bash package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: As reported in the upstream Debian Linux: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078556 Bash's builtin command "printf" has a grave functionality bug - fails to print the format like "%.2f .1". # bash --version GNU bash, version 5.2.32(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. # printf "%.2f\n" 0.1 nan As mentioned in the above URL, upstream's configure-strtold-check patch: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=1078556;filename=configure-strtold-check;msg=20 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/2083131/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
