Comment 2 for bug 119822
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| Jan Claeys (janc) wrote Re: aptitude should respect standardized units | #2 |
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The best way to fix this is through the upstream authors. In my experience, many of them are afraid that this change will result in a lot of (support) questions from people who don't know what it means, but my experience says that most people just don't care, and only a handful will ask about it out of curiosity. Also, some computer magazines like the Dutch "PC Active" have a permanent insert about binary SI prefixes in their Q&A section.
Other upstreams will complain about things having been their way for as long as they remember, and those people might be more difficult to convince...