Hi! On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 22:25:15 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > I would change: > > "It gives the total amount of disk space required to install the named > > package." > > to > > "It gives an indicative amount of disk space required to install the > > named package." > > because the field cannot give the real required disk space: > > - (we really round up the size of every file?) > > - On linux kernel the block size could be up to 4096 bytes (and it is > > filesystem dependent, > > thus unknown on packing time) > > - we install also directories (the disk space depends heavily on > > filesystems). > > Add to that: > > - Packages may install/create in postinst that isn't taken into account in > Installed-Size.
That's what the Extra-Size substvar is for (see deb-substvars(5)), but... > So your change makes sense. ... yes, even with that it's still an approximation. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
