Tracking down 1.6 currency account import problems

[Herbert Thoma]

Christian Stimming schrieb:
<...>
> I'm a little bit worried since the file Scrub.c hasn't been changed since
> November 2001, but it is still the only place that does this conversion of
> 1.6-transactions into 1.7-transactions. The point here is that this function
> only chooses one common commodity for the transaction, but obviously neither
> one of the quantities (amount) or one of the values is adjusted. Given that
> the wrong transaction
> 
> > Split A, to EUR Asset account: Quantity 511.29 Value 511.29
> > Split B, from Currency account: Quantity -1000.00 Value -1000.00
> 
> results, we should probably change that function to actually adapt the value
> of those splits that go into a currency account, so that the correct values
> 
> > Split A, to EUR Asset account: Quantity 511.29 Value 511.29
> > Split B, from Currency account: Quantity -511.29 Value -511.29
> 
> are achieved. More opinions here?

Sounds reasonable.

Any comments from the people who wrote this code?
(i.e. the people who know (or knew once) what is really going on)

 Herbert.

> Christian
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