control: reassign -1 coreutils 8.25-2 On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 09:08:36AM -0500, Rares Marian wrote: > Package: dd
this is in the package coreutils
> Version: 8.25
and this version lacks the debian revision.
Reassigning the bug so the coreutils maintainers can actually notice the
bug report...
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> Ran a dd cloning command and request progress.
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
>
> kill -USR1 <PID>
>
> * What was the outcome of this action?
>
> It produces a report of its progress with MB sizes larger than the SI units
> (MiB).
>
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> The reverse. SI units sizes should be larger because X bytes / 1,048,576
> (for Megabytes) is going to be smaller than X bytes / 1,000,000 (for
> Mibibytes).
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