Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes
Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com> writes:
> It seems a sufficient quantity of people object to even the merest
> mention of 'kibibytes' as shorthand for 'bytes divided by 1024 and
> rounded' that only the fully expanded wording will be acceptable.
>
> The wording without it is unambiguous:
>
> The disk space is given as the integer value of the
> installed size in bytes divided by 1024 and rounded.
>
> I guess that perhaps the '-ibibytes' standard will eventually die, and
> everything will just become multiples of 1000, as it should be. In
> the meantime, regardless of the success of failure of the standard,
> this wording is at least correct for the current behaviour.
Okay. I don't care enough about it to argue it, so I think the most
productive thing to do is just drop the parenthetical. I can make that
change.
> My preferred wording would be to define it in terms of kibibytes, but
> include the explanation, since it seems it is an unfamiliar standard,
> as follows:
>
> The disk space is given as the integer value of the
> installed size in kibibytes (i.e. bytes divided by
> 1024).
Likewise. But I suspect that's going to be equally controversial.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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