The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit a3454abb5b83ac12aec5c52f2ae4492faf6890c8
Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Date: Fri Jun 26 01:52:58 2009 +0200
dpkg-split: Use the correct units (KiB) when referring to partsize
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3566257..d7e4b83 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ dpkg (1.15.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Fix dpkg-scanpackages to properly detect spurious overrides.
* Rewrite dpkg-name in perl.
* Do not close already closed files in some error conditions in libdpkg.
+ * Use the correct units (KiB) in dpkg-split when referring to partsize.
[ Raphael Hertzog ]
* Unset TAR_OPTIONS when creating/extracting tar archives for source
diff --git a/dpkg-split/main.c b/dpkg-split/main.c
index 2b8640a..55d8e41 100644
--- a/dpkg-split/main.c
+++ b/dpkg-split/main.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static void setpartsize(const struct cmdinfo *cip, const
char *value) {
maxpartsize= newpartsize << 10;
if (maxpartsize <= HEADERALLOWANCE)
- badusage(_("part size must be at least %dk (to allow for header)"),
+ badusage(_("part size must be at least %d KiB (to allow for header)"),
(HEADERALLOWANCE >> 10) + 1);
}
diff --git a/man/dpkg-split.1 b/man/dpkg-split.1
index e0ba1f7..7d56532 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-split.1
+++ b/man/dpkg-split.1
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ Specifies an alternative directory for the queue of parts
awaiting
automatic reassembly. The default is
.BR /var/lib/dpkg .
.TP
-.BR \-S ", " \-\-partsize " \fIkbytes\fP"
-Specifies the maximum part size when splitting, in kilobytes (1024
+.BR \-S ", " \-\-partsize " \fIkibibytes\fP"
+Specifies the maximum part size when splitting, in kibibytes (1024
bytes). The default is 450 KiB.
.TP
.BR \-o ", " \-\-output " \fIcomplete-output\fP"
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