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gparted package

gparted should use SI prefix instead of IEC prefix as default

Bug #538747 reported by Benjamin Drung on 2010-03-14

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GParted	Confirmed	Medium	gnome-bugs #612928
	gparted (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gparted

Most GNOME applications use SI prefixes. gparted uses IEC prefixes instead. It should use SI prefix instead to comply with the units policy [1], because it has no option for selecting the preferred prefix.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote on 2010-03-14:

gparted_0.5.1-1ubuntu3.patch Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain)

gparted (0.5.1-1ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * Add units_consistency.patch to make the used prefixes consistent
    with other GNOME applications and to comply with
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy (LP: #538747).

-- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:26:04 +0100

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2010-03-14

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added: patch

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote on 2010-03-15:

gparted_0.5.1-1ubuntu3v2.patch Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain)

Updated patch header (debdiff attached).

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote on 2010-03-15:

g_format_size_for_display() was reverted back to the previous behavior. Please stall this patch until we decided how to progress with glib2.0 (bug #369525).

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Jan Claeys (janc) wrote on 2010-03-19:

As posted on GNOME bugzilla already:

Changing GParted to use decimal prefixes is wrong anyway, as partition start/stop/size certainly have to be entered/shown with binary prefixes when editing; doing otherwise would be very inconventient and result in bugs (and maybe data loss).

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote on 2010-03-21:

As posted on GNOME bugzilla: Let's delay the patch until we have a solution that works with input and output.

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Martin Erik Werner (arand) wrote on 2010-05-05:

I'm tagging this as patch-needswork and patch-forwarded-upstream accordingly, and unsubscribing ubuntu-reviewers.

tags:

added: patch-forwarded-upstream patch-needswork
removed: patch

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-11

Changed in gparted:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → New

Phillip Susi (psusi) on 2012-01-04

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low
importance:	Low → Wishlist

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Curtis Gedak (gedakc) wrote on 2012-01-04:

This bug report is related to the following upstream report:
Bug 612928 - file size units not consistent with GNOME desktop
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612928