Bug#298602: RFP: klibido -- KDE usenet news binary grabber

[Brian Kimball <bk@bk.cx>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : klibido
  Version         : 0.2.1.1
  Upstream Author : Alessandro "Bauno" Bonometti <bauno@inwind.it>
* URL             : http://klibido.sf.net/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : KDE usenet news binary grabber

Klibido automates the tedious task of grabbing binaries off
usenet that are split across dozens of posts.

The main features of Klibido are:
 -automatic joining and decoding of multi-part posts
 -multiple servers support, with priorities and fallback servers if some
  articles are not available on some servers
 -queue balancing: KLibido spreads the bytes load across servers with the
  same priority
 -multiple download threads per server support, with the ability to add or
  remove threads "on the fly"
 -KParts interface for previewing posts (.nfo, images, etc...) inside the
  program 
 -pause, resume, cancel, and prioritize downloads
 
Klibido is still in beta stage, and as such some components may not
work as expected and may even crash the program.  However, the author states:

     "if you treat it gently :-], it will work, and I've used it to download
     two hundreds or so of Gigabytes without any major issue."



There's already a basic debian/ directory in the source
provided by Gonéri Le Bouder in 2001.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)