.dcrc file not recognized

[Mei]

When using dc, the man page suggests that the ~/.dcrc file is read at startup.

Using strace against dc shows that this is not the case; the ~/.dcrc file is never opened.

There was a "bug" reported against Debian dc (Debian Bug 472250) that was reported as fixed in version 1.06.94-3.1 and the changelog reports that this change was made in Ubuntu dc.

Debian bug 472250: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472250

The ~/.dcrc is handy for a variety of things, but one thing is to set the precision of the calculator when starting up.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bc - 1.06.95-8

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bc (1.06.95-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use makeinfo instead of obsoleted texi2html
  * Reintroduce patch reading ~/.dcrc file at dc start, 06_read_dcrc.diff
    (Closes: #582137) (LP: #918836)
  * Drop old-style 'Home page:' entries in long description
  * Added a gbp.conf to use pristine-tar and to sign tags

 -- Ryan Kavanagh <email address hidden> Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:43:53 -0400