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  1. Bug #119822
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Activity log for bug #119822

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2007-06-11 11:26:58 Shirish Agarwal bug added bug
2007-06-11 11:41:28 Áron Sisak aptitude: statusexplanation Thanks for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. <http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists> might be a good start. I also unmarked aptitude as this seems to be an issue that affects package descriptions in general rather than aptitude.
2007-06-11 11:41:42 Áron Sisak None: status Unconfirmed Rejected
2007-06-11 11:41:42 Áron Sisak None: importance Undecided Wishlist
2007-06-11 11:41:42 Áron Sisak None: statusexplanation Thanks for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. <http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists> might be a good start. I also unmarked aptitude as this seems to be an issue that affects package descriptions in general rather than aptitude.
2007-06-11 21:27:46 Jan Claeys description Binary package hint: aptitude Would it be a good idea to have standardized SI prefixes everywhere or atleast make the move to. Just using the above example :- aptitude show filezilla Package: filezilla State: not installed Version: 3.0.0~beta10-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 2134k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516), libgnutls13 (>= 1.5.3-0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516), libwxbase2.8-0 (>= 2.8.4.0), libwxgtk2.8-0 (>= 2.8.4.0), filezilla-common (= 3.0.0~beta10-0ubuntu1) Recommends: filezilla-locales Description: Port of the famous Win32 graphical FTP client FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client for windows with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. It's now multi-platform. FileZilla includes the following features : * Easy to use * Multilingual (English, German, French, Japanese, just to name a few) * Strong encryption support using SFTP over SSH and FTP over SSL/TLS * Supports transfer resuming and files larger than 4 GiB * Site Manager * Queue support * Proxy support * Speed limits * MODE Z transfer compressing * ... and more! Homepage: http://filezilla-project.org/ Now as can be seen it says 2134K but confused as in 2134 kilobytes (1000) or 2134 Kibibytes (1024) , I know it might mean a change to large no. of softwares but it would be nicer in the long run as we would have accurate sizes (reported or seen) by user. Would it be a good idea to have standardized SI prefixes everywhere or atleast make the move to. Just using the above example :- aptitude show filezilla Package: filezilla State: not installed Version: 3.0.0~beta10-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 2134k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516), libgnutls13 (>= 1.5.3-0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516), libwxbase2.8-0 (>= 2.8.4.0), libwxgtk2.8-0 (>= 2.8.4.0), filezilla-common (= 3.0.0~beta10-0ubuntu1) Recommends: filezilla-locales Description: Port of the famous Win32 graphical FTP client FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client for windows with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. It's now multi-platform. FileZilla includes the following features : * Easy to use * Multilingual (English, German, French, Japanese, just to name a few) * Strong encryption support using SFTP over SSH and FTP over SSL/TLS * Supports transfer resuming and files larger than 4 GiB * Site Manager * Queue support * Proxy support * Speed limits * MODE Z transfer compressing * ... and more! Homepage: http://filezilla-project.org/ Now as can be seen it says 2134K but confused as in 2134 kilobytes (1000) or 2134 Kibibytes (1024) , I know it might mean a change to large no. of softwares but it would be nicer in the long run as we would have accurate sizes (reported or seen) by user.
2007-06-11 21:27:46 Jan Claeys title aptitude should respect standardized units applications should respect standardized units
2007-08-27 13:39:12 Shirish Agarwal description Would it be a good idea to have standardized SI prefixes everywhere or atleast make the move to. Just using the above example :- aptitude show filezilla Package: filezilla State: not installed Version: 3.0.0~beta10-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 2134k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516), libgnutls13 (>= 1.5.3-0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516), libwxbase2.8-0 (>= 2.8.4.0), libwxgtk2.8-0 (>= 2.8.4.0), filezilla-common (= 3.0.0~beta10-0ubuntu1) Recommends: filezilla-locales Description: Port of the famous Win32 graphical FTP client FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client for windows with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. It's now multi-platform. FileZilla includes the following features : * Easy to use * Multilingual (English, German, French, Japanese, just to name a few) * Strong encryption support using SFTP over SSH and FTP over SSL/TLS * Supports transfer resuming and files larger than 4 GiB * Site Manager * Queue support * Proxy support * Speed limits * MODE Z transfer compressing * ... and more! Homepage: http://filezilla-project.org/ Now as can be seen it says 2134K but confused as in 2134 kilobytes (1000) or 2134 Kibibytes (1024) , I know it might mean a change to large no. of softwares but it would be nicer in the long run as we would have accurate sizes (reported or seen) by user. Would it be a good idea to have standardized binary prefixes (IEC standard) everywhere or atleast make the move to. Just using the above example :- aptitude show filezilla Package: filezilla State: not installed Version: 3.0.0~beta10-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 2134k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516), libgnutls13 (>= 1.5.3-0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516), libwxbase2.8-0 (>= 2.8.4.0), libwxgtk2.8-0 (>= 2.8.4.0), filezilla-common (= 3.0.0~beta10-0ubuntu1) Recommends: filezilla-locales Description: Port of the famous Win32 graphical FTP client FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client for windows with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. It's now multi-platform. FileZilla includes the following features : * Easy to use * Multilingual (English, German, French, Japanese, just to name a few) * Strong encryption support using SFTP over SSH and FTP over SSL/TLS * Supports transfer resuming and files larger than 4 GiB * Site Manager * Queue support * Proxy support * Speed limits * MODE Z transfer compressing * ... and more! Homepage: http://filezilla-project.org/ Now as can be seen it says 2134K but confused as in 2134 kilobytes (1000) or 2134 Kibibytes (1024) , I know it might mean a change to large no. of softwares but it would be nicer in the long run as we would have accurate sizes (reported or seen) by user.