Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.74-1 Severity: normal The drand48(3) man page contains:
The drand48() and erand48() functions return nonnegative double-precision floating-point values uniformly distributed between [0.0, 1.0). Instead of "between", it should be "over". Then, more importantly, there are errors for lrand48, nrand48, lrand48, and jrand48: The lrand48() and nrand48() functions return nonnegative long integers uniformly distributed between 0 and 2^31. The mrand48() and jrand48() functions return signed long integers uniformly distributed between -2^31 and 2^31. According to POSIX, the right bound is 2^31 - 1. Or if you want to keep 2^31, you should give a semi-open interval as in POSIX: [0,2^31) and [-2^31,2^31) respectively. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: ii manpages 3.74-1 manpages-dev recommends no packages. Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: ii man-db [man-browser] 2.7.4-1 -- no debconf information