Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes
Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> writes:
> 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.
I think it's more common to deal with kibibytes for computing-related
things. Having dpkg present Installed-Size in different units than,
say, ls -h produces would I think be confusing. (ls -h --si exists, but
I think it's relatively uncommon.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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