Your message dated Sat, 15 Dec 2018 10:52:49 -0500
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and subject line Re: /sbin/resize2fs: Remove rant from manpage of resize2fs
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regarding /sbin/resize2fs: Remove rant from manpage of resize2fs
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Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.43.4-2
Severity: minor
File: /sbin/resize2fs
Dear Maintainer,
on the manpage for resize2fs there's this silly and rather unprofessional rant
regarding SI prefixes:
"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?"
This worthless and useless rant about something which is perfectly justified
(k means kilo in every other science), is something that doesn't really belong
on a manpage. Suggestion to reword this into something like:
"Note: When kilobytes is used above, it is power-of-2 kilobytes(i.e 1024 bytes)
and not the SI standard 1000."
However, I was unsure whether to log this against e2fsprogs or man-db.
If this is the wrong source package, I apologise.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on:
ii e2fslibs 1.43.4-2
ii libblkid1 2.29.2-1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libcomerr2 1.43.4-2
ii libss2 1.43.4-2
ii libuuid1 2.29.2-1
ii util-linux 2.29.2-1
e2fsprogs recommends no packages.
Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests:
pn e2fsck-static <none>
pn fuse2fs <none>
pn gpart <none>
ii parted 3.2-17
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.44.4-1
This was addressed in e2fsprogs 1.44.4.
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