Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <cilib...@alumni.caltech.edu>
* Package name : flipcoin Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <cilib...@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