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Re: Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes



Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> If you're going that far, please perform one of the following:
>
>     s/rounded/fractions rounded up/
>     s/rounded/fractions rounded down/
>     s/rounded/fractions rounded to the nearest whole number/
>
> to disambiguate the calculation.

Does du guarantee to do one of those?  If not, the wording is exactly as
ambiguous as the implementation, which IMO is a feature.  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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