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
