Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status

["Rudi Cilibrasi" <cilibrar@alumni.caltech.edu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <cilibrar@alumni.caltech.edu>

* Package name    : flipcoin
  Version         : 1.0.0
  Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <cilibrar@alumni.caltech.edu>
* URL             : https://github.com/rudi-cilibrasi/flipcoin
* License         : MIT/X
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : flip an adjustable coin for random exit status

This command-line utility can be used to simulate a coin flip to get
a random exit status.  The probability of success is adjustable using
an optional command line parameter.

The package includes a single binary executable and man page and is
easily buildable using autoconf and automake.

Although I was a Debian Developer ten years ago, I have not had time to
do much since having kids. I am hoping somebody else can take this
package and sign and upload it. I do not expect to make many revisions
because the source code and functionality are quite simple so the
maintenance burden should be almost zero in the future. I would
appreciate an adoption, co-maintainer, or sponsor as appropriate.

For your convenience, an initial lintian-clean Debian source package is
publicly available at:

https://github.com/rudi-cilibrasi/pkg-flipcoin

This package is a useful core utility for shell scripts that need to
do things in a way that is decorrelated in time and infrequent. Usage is
simple at the shell prompt:

if flipcoin ; then echo heads ; else echo tails ; fi