[SCM] Fast arithmetic with dense matrices over F_{2^e} branch, master, updated. 95d0d619ea2d4bf0b5315a666db54669314234af

Cédric Boutillier boutil at debian.org
Thu Jan 10 00:08:48 UTC 2013


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 2266f5eb4733884c15d29dc052f5c290e5c22f6d
Author: Cédric Boutillier <boutil at debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 9 12:30:52 2013 +0100

    update descriptions

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d5bebf9..d9f27d4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,14 +11,17 @@ Package: libm4rie-dev
 Architecture: any
 Section: libdevel
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libm4rie-0.0.20120613 (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: Method of the Four Russians Inversion library, development files
- M4RI is a library for fast arithmetic with dense matrices over F2.
+Description: extended Method of the Four Russians Inversion library, development files
+ M4RIe is a library for fast arithmetic with dense matrices over small finite
+ fields of even characteristic. It uses the M4RI library, implementing the same
+ operations over the finite field F2.
+ .
  The name M4RI comes from the first implemented algorithm: The "Method
  of the Four Russians" inversion algorithm.  This algorithm in turn is
  named after the "Method of the Four Russians" multiplication
  algorithm which is probably better referred to as Kronrod's method.
  .
- This package contains development files for libm4rie.
+ This package contains development files for the M4RIe library.
 
 Package: libm4rie-0.0.20120613
 Architecture: any
@@ -26,11 +29,14 @@ Section: libs
 Pre-depends: multiarch-support
 Multi-Arch: same
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: Method of the Four Russians Inversion library, shared library
- M4RI is a library for fast arithmetic with dense matrices over F2.
+Description: extended Method of the Four Russians Inversion library, shared library
+ M4RIe is a library for fast arithmetic with dense matrices over small finite
+ fields of even characteristic. It uses the M4RI library, implementing the same
+ operations over the finite field F2.
+ .
  The name M4RI comes from the first implemented algorithm: The "Method
  of the Four Russians" inversion algorithm.  This algorithm in turn is
  named after the "Method of the Four Russians" multiplication
  algorithm which is probably better referred to as Kronrod's method.
  .
- This package contains the m4rie shared library.
+ This package contains the M4RIe shared library.

-- 
Fast arithmetic with dense matrices over F_{2^e}



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