On Apr 05, 2013, at 03:53 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: >I certainly agree that further investigation can wait until after Raring >is released. > >My longer-term concern with masking this at the pycurl level is that if >some library is leaving the floating-point registers in a confused >state, then it seems possible that other applications could be affected >-- perhaps in a way that's a lot more subtle than apt-add-repository's >explicit "cannot convert float NaN to integer" message...
Agreed. It's an ugly hack. Let's look at it again after Raring. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063350 Title: curl corrupts floating point context To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pycurl/+bug/1063350/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
