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



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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