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 <[email protected]> >> >> * Package name : gf-complete >> Version : 1.02~0+2014.05.git259d53ea590b >> Upstream Author : Jim Plank <[email protected]> >> * 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
