Bug#1040433: RFA: anki - flashcard learning program, has migrated to Rust/Python/JavaScript combination
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-rust@lists.debian.org
Anki is a superb flashcard system for learning anything. It used to
be a straightforward Python package with some JavaScript for the front
end. But over the last couple of years, it has migrated to a
combination of Rust, Python and JavaScript (using node). (It went via
the unpackaged Bazel package building system, but it's now migrated
away from that.)
I do not have the capacity to maintain this lovely package now that it
has become significantly more complex. It is currently in unstable at
version 2.1.15, which was a Python-only version (plus a bit of
JavaScript). It no longer builds on testing, and did not make it into
bookworm; upstream is now at 2.1.65.
I have had several requests to update the package and bring it back
into Debian, both via the BTS and via personal emails.
If anyone would like to pick up where I left off, please do let me
know. I'd be happy to share with you what I learnt from the Python
version, but how relevant that will be for the new
Rust/Python/JavaScript incarnation, I do not know. (And I don't know
how many other dependencies will need to be packaged from scratch,
unfortunately. And one further complication is that Cargo.toml also
lists three forked crates....)
Many thanks!
Julian
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