Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: minor
debian-policy appears to define Installed-Size's units as thousands of bytes:
> 5.6.20 Installed-Size
> This field appears in the control files of binary packages, and in the
> Packages files. It gives the total amount of disk space required to install
> the named package.
> The disk space is represented in kilobytes as a simple decimal number.
I suspect this is informal language describing an intention to use kibibytes -
units of 1024 bytes - as implemented by dpkg-gencontrol's use of du -k:
if (!defined($substvars->get('Installed-Size'))) {
defined(my $c = open(DU, "-|")) || syserr(_g("fork for du"));
if (!$c) {
chdir("$packagebuilddir") ||
syserr(_g("chdir for du to \`%s'"), $packagebuilddir);
exec("du","-k","-s",".") or &syserr(_g("exec du"));
The ambiguity, while not particularly serious at the scale of typical package
sizes, has led to dispute, eg https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdebi/+bug/44286.
If I'm wrong about the intention, then an appropriate resolution might be to
reassign this bug to dpkg-dev for adding --si to the du invocation in
dpkg-gencontrol.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
-- no debconf information
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