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Bug 67972 - app-sci/units lacks definition of au as astronomicalunit
Summary: app-sci/units lacks definition of au as astronomicalunit
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Science Related Packages
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Reported: 2004-10-18 00:18 UTC by David Klempner
Modified: 2004-10-19 00:47 UTC (History)
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Description David Klempner 2004-10-18 00:18:56 UTC
version 1.80 of app-sci/units does not define au as astronomicalunit. This appears to be because of major refactoring of the units.dat file between it and the previous version; it looks like said definition was removed.

This is a major problem because a number of other units are defined in terms of au's rather than astronomicalunits, so if you want to know how many attoparsecs per microfortnight there are in a mile per hour, you can't because parsec is defined in terms of au. :-)

This is easily fixed by patching in such a line in units.dat. (it is such a trivial upstream issue, but units appears to lack an upstream maintainer...)

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Comment 1 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-19 00:47:58 UTC
Fixed, thanks. Indeed it looks like this is orphaned.