Bug#457407: corrections

[Andrew Garner <agarner@staff.nationwide.net>]

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> So, should the bug be closed?  
No, the bug report is against the debian package.   It was specifically 
encountered in the mailping 0.0.4-1 package from lenny, but also appears 
to affects etch (0.0.4-0.1) package as well.    I've attached a patch 
that seems to address the problem.
diff -Nur mailping-0.0.4/MailPing/maildir.py mailping-0.0.4.new/MailPing/maildir.py
--- mailping-0.0.4/MailPing/maildir.py	2004-04-16 12:26:25.000000000 -0500
+++ mailping-0.0.4.new/MailPing/maildir.py	2007-12-21 23:56:12.000000000 -0600
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import os, errno, time, socket
+import os, errno, time, socket, string
 
 def _mkdir(*a, **kw):
     try:
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
                 except ValueError:
                     pass
                 else:
-                    return float(seconds + microseconds * 1e-6)
+                    return string.atof("%s.%s" % (seconds, microseconds))
 
     return int(seconds)