Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes
Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> I would prefer if the word kibibyte was not used in policy, so I would
> strike '(in other words, the size in kibibytes)'.
I don't much like the word either, but at this point it's an IEEE and
ISO standard (IEEE 1541-2002). My feeling is that standards are more
important than aesthetics and we should generally follow established
standards in areas like this unless there's some compelling reason not
to.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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