Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:49:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Agreed.  At the time Policy was originally written, kilobyte nearly
>> universally meant kibibyte in the industry.  I'll change this to:

>>     The disk space is given as the integer value of the installed
>>     size in bytes divided by 1024 and rounded (in other words, the
>>     size in kibibytes).

>> for the next release.  (I believe this is an informative change that
>> doesn't require seconds.)

> I formally object to the part '(in other words, the size in
> kibibytes)'.

> (I believe this change is not informative and only serve the purpose
> of endorsing a standard which does not meet consensus in Debian.)

Okay.  As previously mentioned, I disagree and would prefer to retain
it, so I think at this point we need to hear more opinions to see how
widespread the disagreement is.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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