Re: Bug#611422: ITP: libmath-base85-perl -- Perl extension for base 85 numbers, as referenced by RFC 1924
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 03:27:54PM +0900, TANIGUCHI Takaki wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: takaki@debian.org
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : libmath-base85-perl
> Version : 0.2
> Upstream Author : Tony Monroe
> * URL or Web page : http://cpan.org/
> * License : Perl
> Description : Perl extension for base 85 numbers, as referenced by RFC 1924
> RFC 1924 describes a compact, fixed-size representation of IPv6 addresses
> which uses a base 85 number system. Math::Base85 handles some of the uglier
> details of it.
Do you really have a use case for this?
RFC 1924 is an April 1st one, and I've never seen anybody actually use
the base85 representation of IPv6 addresses anywhere.
(In case somebody wants a quick try, ipv6calc supports it:
% ipv6calc -O base85 2607:f8f0:610:4000:214:38ff:feee:b65a
No input type specified, try autodetection...found type: ipv6addr
B7RDhRib#Y+VwlwuPBOG
)
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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