Your message dated Sun, 19 Aug 2018 04:34:07 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#757831: fixed in e2fsprogs 1.44.4-1 has caused the Debian Bug report #757831, regarding resize2fs man pages kibi/kilo diatribe is out of place to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42 Severity : minor The resize2fs man pages read in part: Note: when kilobytes is used above, I mean real, power-of-2 kilobytes, (i.e., 1024 bytes), which some politically correct folks insist should be the stupid-sounding ``kibibytes''. The same holds true for megabytes, also sometimes known as ``mebibytes'', or gigabytes, as the amazingly silly ``gibibytes''. Makes you want to gibber, doesn't it? The community of people who hold the exact opposite point of view (that poorly-educated computer scientists hijacked the pre-existing metric prefixes and destroyed their usefulness by giving them a second possible meaning, leading to endless grief and the occasional crashed space probe) is quite large. Man pages ought to hold a neutral position, and this personal diatribe on the program's author's part has no place here. To give credit where credit is due, the offending paragraph does clarify what the K, M, G symbols mean to resize2fs, which is the only thing a man page needs to do. The simple fix is to rewrite the paragraph to something like: Note: when kilobytes is used above, it means power-of-2 multiples, (i.e., K = 1024 bytes), also unequivocally known as ``kibibytes''. The same holds true for megabytes (``mebibytes'', M = 1024*1024) and gigabytes (``gibibytes'', G = 1024*1024*1024). Daniel U. Thibault Protection des systèmes et contremesures (PSC) | Systems Protection & Countermeasures (SPC) Cyber sécurité pour les missions essentielles (CME) | Mission Critical Cyber Security (MCCS) RDDC - Centre de recherches de Valcartier | DRDC - Valcartier Research Centre 2459 route de la Bravoure Québec QC G3J 1X5 CANADA Vox : (418) 844-4000 x4245 Fax : (418) 844-4538 NAC : 918V QSDJ<http://www.travelgis.com/map.asp?addr=918V%20QSDJ> <http://www.travelgis.com/map.asp?addr=918V%20QSDJ> Gouvernement du Canada | Government of Canada <http://www.valcartier.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/>
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--- Begin Message ---Source: e2fsprogs Source-Version: 1.44.4-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of e2fsprogs, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]> (supplier of updated e2fsprogs package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:46:29 -0400 Source: e2fsprogs Binary: fuse2fs e2fsck-static e2fsprogs-l10n libcomerr2 libcom-err2 comerr-dev libss2 ss-dev e2fsprogs-udeb e2fslibs e2fslibs-dev libext2fs2 libext2fs-dev e2fsprogs Architecture: source Version: 1.44.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]> Changed-By: Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]> Description: comerr-dev - common error description library - headers and static libraries e2fsck-static - statically-linked version of the ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem checke e2fslibs - transitional package e2fslibs-dev - transitional package e2fsprogs - ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities e2fsprogs-l10n - ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities - translations e2fsprogs-udeb - stripped-down versions of e2fsprogs, for debian-installer (udeb) fuse2fs - ext2 / ext3 / ext4 file system driver for FUSE libcom-err2 - common error description library libcomerr2 - transitional package libext2fs-dev - ext2/ext3/ext4 file system libraries - headers and static librari libext2fs2 - ext2/ext3/ext4 file system libraries libss2 - command-line interface parsing library ss-dev - command-line interface parsing library - headers and static libra Closes: 757831 905195 Changes: e2fsprogs (1.44.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream release * Add basic support for the ext4 verity (fsverity) feature * E2fsck will fix file systems that have both the resize_inode and meta_bg feature enabled * Debugfs's ncheck command will now correctly inodes that have multiple hard links * Remove kilo/kibi rant (Closes: #757831) * Update Danish, Spanish, and Swedish translations * Fix symlink to directory conversions (Closes: #905195) Checksums-Sha1: 3c3a74e21b211e4dd61c216b9dfdf045b3a886fc 2747 e2fsprogs_1.44.4-1.dsc c7f20d3b8903a7ea0362d5f44ce5a7447f6edac4 7596925 e2fsprogs_1.44.4.orig.tar.gz 9d65215ff488439addd16b37a121d448816d8214 488 e2fsprogs_1.44.4.orig.tar.gz.asc 6ec168e100891eb0bc633ac44ba3193429259060 77552 e2fsprogs_1.44.4-1.debian.tar.xz 85821bd7f3da5423ef254d49a47151e51b5aded8 10587 e2fsprogs_1.44.4-1_amd64.buildinfo Checksums-Sha256: 9e1eec208d3d2d4827f0ed8169de25192989a72dd93c822624c92d38c4f7870b 2747 e2fsprogs_1.44.4-1.dsc dd707688f0fc353941931c20081f26ec8e54b0bc1ac3f7601f479f9c7675dcb2 7596925 e2fsprogs_1.44.4.orig.tar.gz 79c5e8c164dcceab3de990e8ffa6c4350ed793b306c2c928227bf650f945e829 488 e2fsprogs_1.44.4.orig.tar.gz.asc 39dcd6b5d07f55bbc292e140f02d0dc0e0893cecfb4a6454c9d3c8ebe45a780e 77552 e2fsprogs_1.44.4-1.debian.tar.xz ed177d93e857d32c083606b6ba4d2fa943be1683657ce5371c879c82ca65cebf 10587 e2fsprogs_1.44.4-1_amd64.buildinfo Files: b30f565705ff72d9bffd108a84f739c9 2747 admin required e2fsprogs_1.44.4-1.dsc 156e94a6169ca1fa3f0c6749ae5921b9 7596925 admin required e2fsprogs_1.44.4.orig.tar.gz 1492b2789df945455e59fed3fc2482ef 488 admin required e2fsprogs_1.44.4.orig.tar.gz.asc c92cddc59f6f2f055ca10d67e078e854 77552 admin required e2fsprogs_1.44.4-1.debian.tar.xz 1382eefeb243a7e736a10270e9e6a157 10587 admin required e2fsprogs_1.44.4-1_amd64.buildinfo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEK2m5VNv+CHkogTfJ8vlZVpUNgaMFAlt47cUACgkQ8vlZVpUN gaNlPgf/RMFv4XKrkM7NE0K7eWVGJ3RFo6Ddgo61wonZwVO6MRrdHxhUJIqhc6LF RwomAAFzPT1nOQQAO/27ITE4oZlaMA6weklBx/xCm4LecIcyqM71j+2d923y2Rk3 4X+jZnX9qAiT/2RdLyX1S0IRUk5NZ3hDROgqEqNcSv4r0fBugL7xuep48Jufwgbp ydL2mQGsNtd5jfaby0Mhod+aDXfM7bPvos8CG1yB+yCwVIsbBKPWNlaIaFWirBfe hI7qK7qHMdYByXiUeRVCjxZzGugqI1hcTm6DEfZenkz0KID2y06IXRVl1yugl/Br j+USMRHtZiqwA7iIutjCyU8q9pC5Ag== =f9cg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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