Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:56:58AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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.
> I don't agree that we should commit ourselves to following ugly
> standards. There are, after all, a great many standards from a great
> many standards bodies, only some of which Debian actually strives to
> comply with. :)
There are a great many standards bodies, and then there's ISO and IEEE,
whose standards we follow very widely across Debian. We're not talking
about an ECMA standard here. :)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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