Clarify that Installed-Size is in kibibytes

* Clarify that Installed-Size is in kibibytes.  Thanks, Martin Dorey.
  (Closes: #534408)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index acbc8f5d281e1031ad848558db170ce745ed20f0..db79d81ca007744f962d96ae13ac96e58ab68196 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ debian-policy (3.8.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     warnings against its use.  Thanks, Steve Langasek.  (Closes: #533577)
   * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
     on binary dependencies.  Thanks, Frank Küster.  (Closes: #529771)
+  * Clarify that Installed-Size is in kibibytes.  Thanks, Martin Dorey.
+    (Closes: #534408)
 
  -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:48 -0700
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 528c4b96f63c57896aafd46f33b62e58357692c7..b09bb5d59c520759a4483f9ce2b106b2fe725d03 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -3291,8 +3291,9 @@ Package: libc6
          </p>
 
          <p>
-           The disk space is represented in kilobytes as a simple
-           decimal number.
+           The disk space is given as the integer value of the installed
+           size divided by 1024 and rounded (in other words, the size in
+           kibibytes).
          </p>
        </sect1>