Bug#750713: ITP: gf-complete -- Galois Field Arithmetic
On 06/06/2014 09:51 PM, tony mancill wrote:
> On 06/06/2014 01:15 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
>>
>> * Package name : gf-complete
>> Version : 1.02~0+2014.05.git259d53ea590b
>> Upstream Author : Jim Plank <plank@cs.utk.edu>
>> * URL : https://bitbucket.org/jimplank/gf-complete
>> * License : BSD-3-clause
>> Programming Lang: C
>> Description : Galois Field Arithmetic
>>
>> Galois Field arithmetic forms the backbone of erasure-coded storage systems,
>> most famously the Reed-Solomon erasure code. A Galois Field is defined over
>> w-bit words and is termed GF(2w). As such, the elements of a Galois Field are
>> the integers 0, 1, . . ., 2w − 1. Galois Field arithmetic defines addition and
>> multiplication over these closed sets of integers in such a way that they
>> work as you would hope they would work. Specifically, every number has a
>> unique multiplicative inverse. Moreover, there is a value, typically the value
>> 2, which has the property that you can enumerate all of the non-zero elements
>> of the field by taking that value to successively higher powers.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The description a decent synopsis of Galois fields, but the package
> description doesn't say anything at all about what's included in the
> package. Is it a library, a primer, or perhaps something else?
>
> It would be helpful to provide some details about the package before
> it's uploaded to the archive.
>
> Cheers,
> tony
It's a library, and the binary packages will be called:
- libgf-complete1
- libgf-complete-dev
So there's no need to repeat in the long description that it's a library
when the package name already tells about it, and when the short
description as well...
Thomas
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