Comment 31 for bug 1063350

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote : Re: [Bug 1063350] Re: add-apt-repository/apt-add-repository fails with "ValueError: cannot convert float NaN to integer"

On Apr 05, 2013, at 03:53 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:

>I certainly agree that further investigation can wait until after Raring
>is released.
>
>My longer-term concern with masking this at the pycurl level is that if
>some library is leaving the floating-point registers in a confused
>state, then it seems possible that other applications could be affected
>-- perhaps in a way that's a lot more subtle than apt-add-repository's
>explicit "cannot convert float NaN to integer" message...

Agreed. It's an ugly hack. Let's look at it again after Raring.