Apache's mod_autoindex deals with the directory listing, and I don't think we can control its units display.
Erick is right to point out that this is a flaw in the units policy, though. When looking at the units policy in the Technical Board, we took account of the units in which various things are traditionally labelled; that's why disks are specified as decimal (since, like it or not - and I don't - that's how the things are labelled) and RAM as binary. There are always going to be different uses for file sizes, but their units seemed to follow most naturally from disks. In this case, though, CDs have always, unlike hard disks, been labelled in binary megabytes, and my opinion is that it would be against the spirit of the new units policy (even if not its letter) to quote CD image sizes in decimal megabytes. This is my personal opinion, and I'm not speaking for the rest of the Technical Board here, but I believe I could make a good case for an exception. We should not blindly rush to apply a (very!) new policy to an edge case that wasn't considered when the policy was written. Perhaps the best approach is to note the discrepancy in a footnote on the web pages. Yes, it's a shame that we have to talk about this gobbledegook at all, but with CDs and hard disks being labelled in different units, the only thing that we can possibly do is move the confusion around. As Chris observes, there was confusion before the new units policy, just in a different place. -- Lucid reads file size wrong https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538165 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
