> If the required changes to transmission are too huge for lucid,

It's not really about the size of the change, it's about the unnecessary
risk during an LTS freeze.  (IMO.)  If a serious bug is found in
Transmission in the middle of April, I guarantee you'll find me here in
Launchpad trying to push the fix into Lucid. :)

> [then] we have to change the strings from "KB/s" to "KiB/s".

Even this change -- which is easy, safe, and (IMO) good -- would also
make Transmission less compatible with most distributions.  That's why I
didn't do it six months ago, despite my personal preference to use IEC
notation.

And that's exactly why it's better  to do this upstream.  GNOME apps
should not have to "take sides" in this tempest-in-a-teapot, nor should
they each have to invent their own units helper functions.  After the
last years' worth of flamewars, you surely understand how many people
feel strongly about this on both sides.  It would be advantageous to
have an upstream glib API to handle this issue to everyone's
satisfaction.

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[UIFe] transmission measures bandwidth in KB/s instead of kB/s
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538504
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