Bug#460929: O: xpvm -- graphical console and monitor for PVM

[Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the xpvm package.

The package description is:
 XPVM is a graphical console and monitor for PVM.  It provides a
 graphical interface to the PVM console commands and information,
 along with several animated views to monitor the execution of PVM
 programs.  These views provide information about the interactions
 among tasks in a parallel PVM program, to assist in debugging and
 performance tuning.
 .
 For specifics on the various features of XPVM, and how to operate
 them, please refer to the appropriate on-line pop-up help information.
 .
 Homepage: http://www.netlib.org/utk/icl/xpvm/xpvm.html


Some notes:
 - Dead upstream since before 2000.
 - Low but not negligible popcon score (around 80 currently).
 - Don't work with tcl/tk8.4

I somehow tried to cleanup the code, but that's really awful (tcl/tk…),
not to mention the build system. It looks like the crash with tcl/tk8.4
might be due to mixing different types to free memory. And since my
points of interest somehow moved away from pvm-related stuff, I'm
orphaning this package.

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois