Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:14:31PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
It doesn't account for the build environment filesystem block size
either.
Mike
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