Bug#828787: ITP: libdisorder -- library for entropy measurement of byte streams and other data
Great. Thanks a lot for all commits, Andreas.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:08:59AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > > I hope you will fix this description. I'd only keep the last paragraph,
> >
> > Done.
> >
> > > and then also explain what algorithm it actually uses to measure the
> [...]
> > I'd be happy if you would commit a fix to Git (its writable to any DD)
> > since you obviously know more about this than me.
>
> Done.
>
> > > I also want to point out that this library is not thread-safe, something
> > > which could easily be fixed.
> >
> > A patch would be reall welcome.
>
> Done.
>
> > > It also gives the wrong answer when you
> > > have an input with more than 2^31-1 of the same bytes in the input, even
> > > though it pretends to handle inputs up to 2^63 in length.
> >
> > I think this information should be in README.Debian. What do you think?
>
> I think that would belong in a bugreport sent upstream. But I have also
> committed a patch.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
> Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
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