Bug#769519: ITP: python-pyeclib -- interface for implementing erasure codes

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>

* Package name    : python-pyeclib
  Version         : 0.9.10
  Upstream Author : Kevin Greenan <kmgreen2@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://bitbucket.org/kmgreen2/pyeclib
* License         : BSD-2-clause
  Programming Lang: C, Python
  Description     : interface for implementing erasure codes

 This library provides a simple Python interface for implementing erasure
 codes. To obtain the best possible performance, the underlying erasure code
 algorithms are written in C.
 .
 This library makes use of Jerasure for Reed-Solomon and provides its own flat
 XOR-based erasure code encoder and decoder. Currently, it implements a
 specific class of HD Combination Codes (see "Flat XOR-based erasure codes in
 storage systems: Constructions, efficient recovery, and tradeoffs" in IEEE
 MSST 2010). These codes are well-suited to archival use-cases, have a simple
 construction and require a minimum number of participating disks during
 single-disk reconstruction (think XOR-based LRC code).

This will soon be a dependency in Swift when they will implement erasure code.