[SCM] Debian packaging of Math-Random-MT-Perl CPAN distribution branch, master, updated. 9f0f503954784e02463e81d9cd4d7979b70538b2

Florent Angly florent.angly at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 18:01:44 UTC 2012


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 663378c1333e5125ca83033694e50338e5c75daf
Author: Florent Angly <florent.angly at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 3 03:59:35 2012 +1000

    Tweaked control and copyright files

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 94f5169..e0436e7 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ Package: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
 Description: Pure Perl Mersenne Twister Random Number Generator
- Pure Perl implementation of the Mersenne Twister algorithm. Mersenne Twister
- is a 32 bit pseudorandom number generator developed by Makoto Matsumoto and
- Takuji Nishimura. The algorithm is characterised by a very uniform
- distribution but is not cryptographically secure. What this means in real
- terms is that it is fine for modeling but no good for crypto.
+ Math::Random::MT::Perl is a pure-Perl implementation of the Mersenne Twister
+ algorithm. Mersenne Twister is a 32 bit pseudorandom number generator
+ developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. The algorithm is
+ characterised by a very uniform distribution but is not cryptographically
+ secure. What this means in real terms is that it is fine for modeling but no
+ good for crypto.
  .
  Internally, unsigned 32 bit integers are used. The range of possible values
  for such integers is 0 .. 4,294,967,295 (0..2**32-1). The generator takes a
@@ -30,4 +31,6 @@ Description: Pure Perl Mersenne Twister Random Number Generator
  argument. Only the first 10 digits of the returned float are mathematically
  significant.
  .
- This description was automagically extracted from the module by dh-make-perl.
+ This Perl module implements the same pseudorandom number generator found in
+ Math::Random::MT which is implemented in C/XS). Their output is identical but
+ their interface may be slightly different.
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index af80b47..eda1528 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -1,16 +1,7 @@
 Format-Specification: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?view=markup&pathrev=135
-Maintainer: (c) Dr James Freeman 2000-08 <airmedical [at] gmail [dot] com>
-    All rights reserved.
+Maintainer: James Freeman <airmedical at gmail.com>
 Source: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Random-MT-Perl/
 Name: Math-Random-MT-Perl
-DISCLAIMER: This copyright info was automatically extracted 
- from the perl module. It may not be accurate, so you better 
- check the module sources in order to ensure the module for its 
- inclusion in Debian or for general legal information. Please, 
- if licensing information is incorrectly generated, file a bug 
- on dh-make-perl.
- NOTE: Don't forget to remove this disclaimer once you are happy
- with this file.
 
 Files: *
 Copyright: (c) Dr James Freeman 2000-08 <airmedical [at] gmail [dot] com>

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