[Bug 1904251] Re: Ping interval depends on the system's locale

[Sebastien Bacher]

Thank you for your bug report, the issue was reported upstream in
https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/273 and fixed in newer version

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please
perform as much as possible of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need
to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

** Bug watch added: github.com/iputils/iputils/issues #273
   https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/273

** Changed in: iputils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: iputils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: iputils (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

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Title:
  Ping interval depends on the system's locale

Status in iputils package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  iputils-ping:
    Installato: 3:20190709-3
    Candidato:  3:20190709-3
    Tabella versione:
   *** 3:20190709-3 500
          500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  lsb_release -rd:
  Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS                                                                                                                                                                                                   
  Release:        20.04

  
  ping is using the current locale to interpret the interval value: 

      ping -i 0.3 localhost

  fails with "ping: bad timing interval: 0.3"
  while this works:

      ping -i 0,3 localhost

  This also works:
      LANG=en ping localhost -i .3

  It seems similar to a 2015 bug from Fedora:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283277

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