[Pkg-rust-maintainers] ITP: podcasts -- Podcast application for GNOME written in Rust

[Marco Villegas]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : podcasts
  Version         : 0.4.8
  Upstream Author : Jordan Petridis <jpetridis at gnome.org>
* URL             : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Podcasts
* License         : GPL-3.0-or-later
  Programming Lang: Rust
  Description     : Podcast application for GNOME

A podcatcher application for GNOME environment written on Rust and GTK.

This is a nice podcatcher tightly integrated with GNOME.
I think this is the first application trying to do this in the GNOME
ecosystem specifically for podcasts.

Alternatives
I think liferea can also handle podcasts, but it is far from
specialized on it. gpodder is another GTK application written on python.
Even if both are available on debian, this would be a really nice
addition for Debian, especially for GNOME users.

podcasts application is listed under "Eventual goals" on rust team's
debcargo-conf to-do file at
https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/blob/master/TODO.rst

This application depends on many other rust crates, some of them
already added to Debian by the rust team.

An initial list of rust crates the application depends on that are not
yet in Debian:

- diesel-migrations
- gstreamer-player
- html2text
- libhandy
- mpris-player
- podcasts-data

To start, diesel migrations crate is now in the process of getting
added, see
https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/merge_requests/125

Best,

-Marco