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>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

+1. The unit being discussed (number of bytes divided by 1024) has an
internationally-accepted standard term, and even if we find the term
ugly we should acknowledge that term in our use of that unit to clarify
the intent.

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Ben Finney