On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 09:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:49:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> Agreed. At the time Policy was originally written, kilobyte nearly
> >> universally meant kibibyte in the industry. I'll change this to:
>
> >> The disk space is given as the integer value of the installed
> >> size in bytes divided by 1024 and rounded (in other words, the
> >> size in kibibytes).
>
> >> for the next release. (I believe this is an informative change that
> >> doesn't require seconds.)
>
> > I formally object to the part '(in other words, the size in
> > kibibytes)'.
>
> > (I believe this change is not informative and only serve the purpose
> > of endorsing a standard which does not meet consensus in Debian.)
>
> Okay. As previously mentioned, I disagree and would prefer to retain
> it, so I think at this point we need to hear more opinions to see how
> widespread the disagreement is.
I'm happy with kibibytes, but on the other hand I'm also happy with
kilobytes if the code is changed to actually report 1,000's of bytes.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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