Bug#537952: Use more random random seed than localtime

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Tue Jul 28 15:50:11 UTC 2009


On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:03:48 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:

> Math::Random has its random number only based on localtime:

I'm a bit confused about the state of this bug/package; Don has
provided a patch, Jonathan has committed it with, there was a
discussion about some aspects of the patch between Don, Jonathan, and
Damyan -- is there any consensus on how to proceed?

Cheers,
gregor

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