On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:42:24AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@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. I agree with the use of kibibytes here. Standard prefixes and units can and should be endorsed by Policy, or else we have confusion over what standard prefixes such as "kilo" mean. The meanings are well defined by both international conventions and standards, no matter if some people disagree or don't like the names. k = 10³ = 1000 Ki = 2¹⁰ = 1024 To do anything else would be plain wrong, and make computer scientists look like retards for using a prefix to mean something different than what rest of the *entire planet* understands it to be. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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