Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I would change: > "It gives the total amount of disk space required to install the named > package." > to > "It gives an indicative amount of disk space required to install the > named package." > because the field cannot give the real required disk space: > - (we really round up the size of every file?) > - On linux kernel the block size could be up to 4096 bytes (and it is > filesystem dependent, > thus unknown on packing time) > - we install also directories (the disk space depends heavily on > filesystems). Add to that: - Packages may install/create in postinst that isn't taken into account in Installed-Size. So your change makes sense. Cheers, Emilio
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