[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#828787: ITP: libdisorder -- library for entropy measurement of byte streams and other data

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>

* Package name    : libdisorder
  Version         : 0.0.2
  Upstream Author : Michael E. Locasto
* URL             : https://github.com/locasto/libdisorder
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : library for entropy measurement of byte streams and other data
 libdisorder is a small, simple C library for use by programmers in
 other programs. There is a small test program included that opens
 /dev/urandom and calls libdisorder in the `test/' directory. There is
 also a command-line tool, `ropy' in the `tool/' directory for reporting
 on the entropy of normal files.
 .
 You will probably want to pipe the output of libdisorder to some other
 math analysis or graphing environment (e.g., gnuplot).
 .
 The library's primary function reports entropy in bits: essentially,
 this is the number of bits necessary to encode the actual level of
 information contained in the data passed to the library: it is the
 theoretical maximum amount of compression possible.


Remark: The code of libdisorder appeared in two other targets of Debian
Med and to avoid code duplication this library is packaged separately.
It is maintained at
   https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/libdisorder.git