Currency account in CVS broken (was: Bug importing 1.6 currency accounts in CVS)

[Derek Atkins]

Christian,

Did you ever try this file on the new (in CVS/1.7.5) code to make sure
it works?

-derek

Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> writes:

> On Dienstag, August 20 2002, Herbert Thoma pointed out a bug in imported 
> currency accounts from a gnucash-1.6 file into gnucash-CVS. Recently I 
> encountered the same problem and it turned out to not only affect 1.6-er 
> files but additionally the complete multi-currency handling.
> 
> I extended Herbert's demonstration file (attached). Please open it and open 
> the "DEM-EUR" currency account. You will see two transactions. One of them is 
> not balanced (labelled as "Wrong Transaction"). First bug: This transaction 
> has been balanced in gnucash-1.6. But there are more obvious bugs to come. 
> Now open the multi-split view of the "Wrong Transaction". 
> 
> You see the other split ("Correct Split") that books the 511.29 EUR to a EUR 
> account. But in the the split of this account ("Wrong Split"), you see that 
> the split value 1000.00 is correct and corresponds to the "Correct 
> Transaction". But the split amount is WRONG since it deduces 1000.00 shares 
> at a price of 1.0 from this account, whereas it was supposed to deduce 511.29 
> shares at a (dynamically calculated) price of 1.95584, just as the price in 
> the "Correct Transaction". 
> 
> Here's the OBVIOUS BUG: Now try to enter the mentioned price (or any other) in 
> the "price" field, and answer the following question such that the "share 
> amount" should be changed. Bummer. The amount simply doesn't change at all. 
> This is a SERIOUS problem of share/multi-currency handling which definitely 
> needs to be sorted out until 1.8. Anybody any ideas?
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> 

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