Package: coreutils Version: 9.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #249832 X-Debbugs-Cc: s...@riseup.net
Dear Maintainer, Why's this simple fix still a problem today? The failure to use correct prefixes is still a cause for major confusion amongst individuals especially when sharing data, and especially when other programs are involved that do correctly report file sizes. K, M, G, T, etc. have NEVER referred to base-2 values until they were incorrectly introduced into the computing world, who knows, probably 50 years ago or more. Someday maybe all computer programs will properly report file sizes. Please make corrections so that '-h' flag correctly uses prefixes Ki, Mi, Gi, Ti, etc. Or change -h default behavior to report base-10 values and add another flag to report base-2 values+prefixes. Actually it was IEC 60027-2, which has been superceded by ISO/IEC 80000, that IEEE adopted most likely. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.3.1-1 ii libattr1 1:2.5.1-1 ii libc6 2.35-2 ii libgmp10 2:6.2.1+dfsg1-1 ii libselinux1 3.4-1+b1 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
