Debian Bug report logs - #865736
doc misuses metric prefixes

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: doc misuses metric prefixes

Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 12:38:41 +0100

Package: findutils
Version: 4.4.2-9+b1
Severity: minor

find(1) documents the following suffixes that can be applied to the
argument of a -size criterion:

              `k'    for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes)
              `M'    for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes)
              `G'    for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes)

These are not the correct names for these units.  The prefixes "kilo-",
"mega-" and "giga-" properly refer to the decimal multipliers 10^3,
10^6, and 10^9.  To refer to the binary multipliers 2^10, 2^20, and
2^30 the documentation should instead use the IEC prefixes "kibi-",
"mebi-", and "gibi-".

-zefram

Message #12 received at 865736-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>

To: 865736-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#865736: fixed in findutils 4.6.0+git+20170729-1

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:04:02 +0000

Source: findutils
Source-Version: 4.6.0+git+20170729-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
findutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 865736@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> (supplier of updated findutils package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 17:42:38 +0200
Source: findutils
Binary: findutils locate
Architecture: source
Version: 4.6.0+git+20170729-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Closes: 865736
Description: 
 findutils  - utilities for finding files--find, xargs
 locate     - maintain and query an index of a directory tree
Changes:
 findutils (4.6.0+git+20170729-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream snapshot 808d8aa612971a843432aee663a3c3fffd1a2df4.
     + Drop 20_Lock-tests-Fix-build-failure-on-GNU-Hurd-regression.patch.
     + Uses correct IEC unit prefixes in the documentation of 'find -size'
       (kibibyte et al.). Closes: #865736
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