Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it.
active 2025-10-01 → 2026-05-01 (UTC)
Activity over time
Daily event counts in the loaded window
Line chart, 213 days from 2025-10-01 to 2026-05-01. Pushes: 5 total, peak 2 in a day. Pull requests: 3 total, peak 2 in a day. Issues: 15 total, peak 7 in a day. Comments: 2 total, peak 1 in a day. Stars: 6 total, peak 2 in a day.
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Stars, PRs, issues and forks are under-captured in the later part of this window. GH Archive progressively stopped capturing non-push events during 2026 — −95% or worse by the end of the window. Every series here except Pushes fades for that reason, so a decline above reflects the archive, not this repository. Pushes stay reliable throughout, so read them, and the contributor counts derived from them, as the real signal. Data health has the measurements.
Top contributors
Pushes, PRs, issues, reviews and comments — stars and forks excluded, so this is contribution rather than popularity
| Contributor | Contributions | Pushes | PRs | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| RiderALT | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Recent activity
Latest issues, pull requests and releases
- Pull request#11Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2026-05-01 21:58
- Issue#10Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2026-01-20 11:09The kpackviewer link mentioned in the README is broken
- Issue#10Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2026-01-12 12:00The kpackviewer link mentioned in the README is broken
- Issue comment#9Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-30 10:58Add test suite
- Issue#2Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-25 07:49alien fails to repack Debian packages to rpm when Description starts with a blank line
- Issue#9RiderALT2025-12-24 08:10Add test suite
- Pull request#7RiderALT2025-12-23 18:51
- Issue#4Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-23 13:54--to-tgz fails on non-Slackware systems: missing tar fallback
- Issue#4Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-23 11:53--to-tgz fails on non-Slackware systems: missing tar fallback
- Pull request#8RiderALT2025-12-23 09:09
- Issue#4RiderALT2025-12-23 08:35--to-tgz fails on non-Slackware systems: missing tar fallback
- Issue#3Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-23 03:07Fix missing changelog needed for version number.
- Issue#3Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-23 03:03Fix missing changelog needed for version number.
- Issue#3Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-23 03:03Fix missing changelog needed for version number.
- Issue#3Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-23 03:03Fix missing changelog needed for version number.
- Issue#2Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-20 20:23alien fails to repack Debian packages to rpm when Description starts with a blank line
- Issue#2Syed-Shahrukh-OSSRevival2025-12-20 20:22alien fails to repack Debian packages to rpm when Description starts with a blank line
- Issue#2RiderALT2025-12-20 15:25alien fails to repack Debian packages to rpm when Description starts with a blank line
- Issue#1RiderALT2025-12-10 12:41Error messages lack details from external utilities
Totals cover only the window loaded into ClickHouse and count events, not GitHub's lifetime totals — 6 stars here means stars gained during the window, not the repo's star count.