Bug#684128: false advertising

[Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk>]

On 08/08/12 07:20, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Le mardi, 7 août 2012 22.46:03, Roger Lynn a écrit :
>> This has caught me out in the past. When it says gigabyte I expect 2^30
>> bytes. Hopefully this time when I do an installation I will remember to get
>> a calculator out. The people who don't care are mostly those who don't know
>> what a gigabyte is.
> 
> (FTR, that's near to be insulting in my standards…)

I'm sorry, that was over the top.

> I know what giga- and gibi-bytes are, but I still don't care right now; we are 
> actually trying to get Wheezy out and there are other priorities (such as 572 
> Release-Critical bugs) than this type of problem.

Absolutely agreed. I wouldn't hope to see this fixed for Wheezy - even just
changing the wording of the text requires an enormous amount of work at this
stage - it's just frustrating to see it apparently being dismissed out of
hand as not being a problem.

Thanks,

Roger