Bug 91579

Summary: an error in 'units' package description
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: petrosyan
Component: specspoAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description petrosyan 2003-05-24 19:40:18 UTC
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Description of problem:
units package description says:
"Units converts an amount from one unit to another, or tells you what
mathematical operation you need to perform to convert from one unit to
another. Units can only handle multiplicative scale changes; it
can not tell you how to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, which
requires an additive step in addition to the multiplicative
conversion."

In reality units _can_ convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit. This can be verified
by reading the first paragraph of either info or man documentation which says:

"The `units' program converts quantities expressed in various scales
to their equivalents in other scales.  The `units' program can handle
multiplicative scale changes as well as nonlinear conversions such as
Fahrenheit to Celsius."

I also run the program myself and verified that 'units' indeed can "do nonlinear
conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius."


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
units-1.80-4 and units-1.80-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qi units
2. info units
3. compare the package description with the first paragraph of the Overview from
info documentation

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2003-05-26 11:08:52 UTC
fixed in specspo cvs... in the units.spec it was already corrected.