Hello Steven, or anyone else affected, Accepted bash into oracular-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/5.2.32-1ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed- oracular to verification-done-oracular. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-oracular. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu Oracular) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-oracular -- 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: Fix Released Status in bash source package in Oracular: Fix Committed Status in bash source package in Plucky: Fix Released Status in bash package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: [Impact] Programs relying on the builtin printf function of bash stop working correctly when trying to format numbers with %f. [Test Plan] Run the following command, which currently returns "-nan" while it should return 52.12: $ bash -c "printf %.2f 52.123" [Where problems could occur] Unknown regressions in the formatting after applying the patch. [Original Bug Report] 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
