Bug 67972 - app-sci/units lacks definition of au as astronomicalunit
Bug#: 67972 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: sci@gentoo.org Reported By: klempner@imsanet.org
Component: Applications
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Summary: app-sci/units lacks definition of au as astronomicalunit
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Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2004-10-18 00:18 0000
Description:   Opened: 2004-10-18 00:18 0000
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...)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

------- Comment #1 From Patrick Kursawe 2004-10-19 00:47:58 0000 -------
Fixed, thanks. Indeed it looks like this is orphaned.