Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> 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.
It doesn't, yes, but Ben also has a point that while we're writing a
specification, we may as well write a complete one. But that reminds me
that I think there was some discussion of pointing out that the size is
not exact since it doesn't account for actions taken by maintainer
scripts.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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