ITS#8204 Remove bias towards the first record in RFC2782 shuffle implementation.
Prior to this change, given two records of weight 1 the algorithm would return them in the order (0,1) with 100% probability instead of the desired 50%. This was due to an off-by-one error in the range test. srv_rand() returns a float in the range [0.0, 1.0[, so r is an integer in the range [0, total[. The correct probability for record 0 to be chosen is a[0].weight/total, not (a[0].weight+1)/total.
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