[Bug 1593869] Re: do-release-upgrade crashed with ValueError in update_interface(): could not convert string to float: '0, 0000'

[disasterpiece]

Same issue on 16.04.

Fixed with:

--- /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py	2016-09-01 17:34:43.000000000 +0300
+++ /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py.bak	2016-11-23 05:57:04.766896902 +0300
@@ -212,6 +212,12 @@
         """Fork."""
         return os.fork()
 
+    def __float(self, str):
+        try:
+            return float(str)
+        except:
+            return float(re.sub(',', '.', str))
+
     def update_interface(self):
         """Update the interface."""
         try:
@@ -252,9 +258,9 @@
                 self.conffile(match.group(1), match.group(2))
         elif status == "pmstatus":
             # FIXME: Float comparison
-            if float(percent) != self.percent or status_str != self.status:
-                self.status_change(pkgname, float(percent), status_str.strip())
-                self.percent = float(percent)
+            if self.__float(percent) != self.percent or status_str != self.status:
+                self.status_change(pkgname, self.__float(percent), status_str.strip())
+                self.percent = self.__float(percent)
                 self.status = status_str.strip()
         elif base == "status":
             self.dpkg_status_change(pkgname, status)

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade crashed with ValueError in update_interface():
  could not convert string to float: '0,0000'

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The upgrader froze then closed after a while

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.10.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-25.44-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-25-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Fri Jun 17 21:52:44 2016
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-17 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160617)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.5
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/do-partial-upgrade --frontend=DistUpgradeViewGtk3
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=da
   PATH=(custom, no user)
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade', '--frontend=DistUpgradeViewGtk3']
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Title: do-release-upgrade crashed with ValueError in update_interface(): could not convert string to float: '0,0000'
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups:
   
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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