Bug#684085: libmath-random-mt-perl: rand() does not handle arguments and irand() handle an argument wrongly

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libmath-random-mt-perl
Version: 1.15-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

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Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78200

Hi

[Setting the Severity to important as the module does not behave as
documented in manpage and calculates thus 'wrong' values, but we can
downgrade this to normal if needed]

libmath-random-mt-perl 1.15-1 introduced wrong handling of arguments
for rand() and irand(). rand() does not respect the argument passed
(but should), as if rand($number) is set, the PRNG outputs numbers in
[0,$number). 

Wrongly it does it with irand().

This is fixed upstream in 1.16-1, but introduce a change also for the
testsuite to switch to Test::More and Test::Number::Delta.

p.s.: I can extract the change and ask release-team for an unblock
      request for wheezy.

Regards,
Salvatore

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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