si unit broken

[Stefan Beller]

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* siunitx warning: "version-1-option"
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* Version 1 option 'decimalsymbol' detected.
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(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/siunitx/config/siunitx-version-1.cfg

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! LaTeX error: "kernel/property-unknown"
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! The key property '.meta:x' is unknown.
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! See the LaTeX3 documentation for further information.
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! For immediate help type H <return>.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: texlive-full 2013.20130722-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-9.16-generic 3.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 1 12:40:22 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-02 (213 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: texlive-base
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-25 (5 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[pml (phi)]

A short summary:

According to http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23662 this bug is related to using "version 1" package options of siunitx. So the quick fix for affected users is to find and use the corresponding "version 2" options.

The bug was actually caused by a sort of typo in the source code (see also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719871 ) which is already fixed upstream: https://github.com/josephwright/siunitx/commit/c8a302439cd18cd014eef8377667f7ab662ba37d

So while there seem to be possible workarounds, we definitely need to have this patch transferred to the current ubuntu packages, as the user should not be forced to edit his tex code that used to work before.