Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 05:36:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
> > A peripheral point (already addressed earlier in this thread): It's
> > still ambiguous in that it doesn't specify in which direction the
> > rounding should occur.
>
> Did we resolve what rounding behavior we should document here? It's not
> in the bug log. I think some messages have been going back into
> debian-policy instead of the relevant bug, which may be my fault; I need
> to kick Gnus a bit there.
Is that any relevant ? I mean, the difference between rounding up and
rounding down is 1 KiB. Not even the size of an ext3 block. It makes
virtually no difference.
Mike
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