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Bug#684128: false advertising



Quoting ian_bruce@fastmail.net (ian_bruce@fastmail.net):
> > Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'important'
> 
> So if the partitioner invites people to specify their swap space, or any
> other volume, in units of "gigabytes", which JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY
> understands to mean 2^30 in that context, and instead it uses the hard

I think you probably have a strange definition of "just about
everybody". In reality, I think that just about nobody cares about
gigabytes being 2^30, or 1000000000. This is basically splitting
hairs, which "wishlist" perfectly fits.

> disk manufacturers' phony units which are seven percent smaller, WITHOUT
> EVEN TELLING YOU THIS, and you only find out when the installation is
> complete, and nothing can be done about it except starting all over
> again, then this isn't a real bug, but just "wishlist"?

Yes. Please don't shout.


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