Re: Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes
On Mon, Jul 13 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
+1
>> 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.
Yes.
manoj
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