Package: units
Version: 1.81-4
Severity: important
Severely broken temperature conversion. Does not convert any
temperature units properly:
32 degrees F should be 0 degrees C, reports 17.77...
degrees kelvin is said to be unsupported in the data file
but is included "for consistency"
100 degrees C should be 212 degrees F, reports 180
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ units
2084 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: 32 degF
You want: degC
* 17.777778
/ 0.05625
You have: 0 degC
You want: degK
* 0
/ inf
You have: 100 degC
You want: degF
* 180
/ 0.0055555556
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages units depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline4 4.3-15 GNU readline and history libraries
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Eldon Koyle
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