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and subject line Bug#1118354: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #306199,
regarding reiserfsprogs: please use SI units
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Package: reiserfsprogs
Version: 1:3.6.19-1
Severity: important
the man says
"The size parameter may have one of the optional modifiers K, M, G,
which means the size parameter is given in kilo-, mega-, gigabytes
respectively."
it's unclear if K, M, G mean
a) 2^10B, 2^20B, 2^30B
b) 10^3B, 10^6B, 10^9B
if (a), then the manpage should use SI units KiB, MiB and GiB.
The BIPM brochure says:
"These SI prefixes refer strictly to powers of 10. They should not be used to
indicate powers of 2 (for example, one kilobit represents 1000 bits and not 1024
bits)"
http://www1.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/si-brochure.pdf ยง3.1
Please consider using [KMG]iB instead of [kMG]B
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Versions of packages reiserfsprogs depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libuuid1 1.37-2 universally unique id library
-- no debconf information
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Version: 1:3.6.27-9+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package reiserfsprogs has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1118354
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
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