Bug#370702: apt: Change transfer rate units from KB/MB => KiB/MiB (IEC standard 60027-2)
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.44.1
Severity: minor
It would be more accurate if the transfer rate units were changed to
follow the 1998 IEC standard
MiB = Mebibyte
KiB = Kibibyte
See
- "NIST Prefixes for binary multiples"
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
- "Mebibyte"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages apt recommends:
pn debian-archive-keyring <none> (no description available)
-- debconf-show failed
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