Package: ksh Version: 93u+20120801-3.1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
Floating point arithmetic no longer works in ksh. Here's how it used to work: > $ echo $((1./2)) > 0.5 ... and this is how it works now: > $ echo $((1./2)) > ksh: 1./2: arithmetic syntax error The last version which actually supported FP arithmetic was 93u+20120801-1 in Debian 8. The changelog for Debian 9 lists 4 more updates (93u+20120801-1.1, 93u+20120801-1.2, 93u+20120801-2 and 93u+20120801-3.1), but none of them mentions any breaking changes. --- System information. --- Architecture: Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-amd64 Debian Release: 9.3 500 stable-updates ftp.ru.debian.org 500 stable security.debian.org 500 stable ftp.ru.debian.org 100 stretch-backports ftp.ru.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =============================-+-=========== libc6 (>= 2.23) | binfmt-support | Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty.
