Withdraw of support for the ecc package
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There is a fundamental bug in the ecc package (any version: 1.2.1 or 1.3.x).

In about 15% of the cases where there are 4 or more errors in the encoded
blocks, the ecc decoder would wrongly report that there were 3 or fewer
errors and that they had been corrected.  In actuality, not only were the
original errors not corrected, the decoder had inserted more errors.

Support for the ecc package is withdrawn until further notice.

If you are considering to incorporate the library in any applications,
please do not use it.  My sincere apologies for spoiling your plans.

Regards,
fclim@acm.org