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has caused the Debian Bug report #1079105,
regarding coreutils: printf "%.8f" outputs huge random looking number when read
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Package: coreutils
Version: 9.4-3.1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
Up until some weeks ago, the output of the following was as expected, but after
upgrading the OS packages, the output changed to some hughe random looking
numbers:
mynumber=0.0
printf "%.8f\n" $mynumber
output before: 0.00000000
output now:
100659343671425158268899429462533789689816976257294885146455633784489074259769712021806609425516027094734142336186527542881113177243583820764212800336966890680929038744480475088875604095967744458970118613748778953976685910872466532772395254462136136658675405376516468169903844613979325120791825102945927666407685292041198228478980266237818769318008014364996603992114424065310850816932632425345365473553624858624.00000000
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.8.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_CH:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.3.2-2
ii libattr1 1:2.5.2-1
ii libc6 2.39-6
ii libgmp10 2:6.3.0+dfsg-2+b1
ii libselinux1 3.5-2+b4
ii libssl3t64 3.2.2-1
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 5.3-1
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