gcalctool can't divide correctly in Jaunty

[Thomas Novin]

Binary package hint: gcalctool

Simple divides doesn't work correctly in Jaunty.

For example:

1111/10 = 111,1
Result with gcalctool: 1111

3590/12 = 299
Result with gcalctool: 299166666667

However! If you take 3590/12 and then multiply 299166666667 with 12 you get 3590 again :)

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

$ apt-cache policy gcalctool
gcalctool:
  Installed: 5.25.90-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 5.25.90-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 5.25.90-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, with the first example i got as a result : 111,1 so its ok with the second one i got the bad result, which mode are you using? thanks.

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

This was using the Basic mode. I just tested Advanced and Financial with the same result. The problem seems to be that it doesn't print the decimal point. Since you can do 3590 / 12 and then * 12 and get 3590 again it obviously has the right numers, it just presents them wrong.

Btw, 2590/12 isn't exactly 299 but 299,166666667. Used bc to calculate and there were no decimal points there..

[Jesper Larsen (knorr)]

This bug seems to be related to bug #318300
It's a bug on systems with locales that uses , as a decimal separator instead of . causing to decimal separator to disappear.
A fix has been committed upstream and will be included in 5.25.91.

I've included the fix in a package in my PPA https://launchpad.net/~knorr/+archive/ppa