Packages for purchase appear with double "US$" signs

[Michael Terry]

Packages that you buy started appearing with prices like "US$ US$ 5.99" in the software center in quantal a while ago. I realized this when enabling the fake-distro environment variable to pretend I was running under precise.

I've included a screenshot of the problem, where you can see that Bastion is "US$ US$ 18.99".

On a related note, why is it "US$ 18.99" instead of "US $18.99"? Americans never put a space between the numbers and dollar sign.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: software-center 5.3.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 9a284f3f6b4f7829abbe27ad9573a709
CheckboxSystem: 3935143777c965daaa64b51f0134f712
Date: Tue Sep 4 09:31:55 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110422)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 5.3.11

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software-center (5.3.11) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/speedup2:
    - startup time improvements
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/adt-you-make-my-life-hard:
    - updates to make the tests run as user
  * debian/tests/run-tests, run-tests.sh:
    - ensure there is a apt-xapian-index available as this is not
      automatically created in the ADT test VM environment
    - fail to run the tests if there is no apt-xapian-index
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/lp1045330:
    - return an empty string if there is no price instead
      of the "None" string and add test (LP: #1045330)
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/lp1044900:
    - add local "trans" var to fix crash (LP: #1044900)
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/fix-init:
    - fix some incorrect __init__() calls
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/fix-fixme-lp1045330:
    - test case update, fix a FIXME in the dataprovider
      test by providing its own private dbus connection
      instead of using the system bus
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/lp1045826:
    - fix double display of currency and cleanup around
      this code (LP: #1045826)
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/trivial-restore-state-fix:
    - improvements to the initial window size code and
      make the window size config a property that supports
      tuples

  [ Aaron Peachey ]
  * lp:~aaronp/software-center/review-refactor:
    - This branch simply converts the existing callbacks for retrieval
      of review data and submission/deletion/modification of reviews
      to GObject signals (courtesy of mvo) which makes it more consistent
      with the rest of the code

  [ Gary Lasker ]
  * lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/recommended-installed-feedback:
    - signal the recommender service when a recommended item has been
      successfully installed, refactor and clean up surrounding code,
      new unit tests for the feature (LP: #944060, LP: #1044107)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:36:45 +0200