Re: Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes
Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>> 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?
>
> The specification at
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/du.html says:
>
> By default, file sizes shall be written in 512-byte units,
> rounded up to the next 512-byte unit.
Ah, thanks. Okay, changes made.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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