glyphpoch / greenclip-deb

Debian package builder for greenclip

WIP and very messy at the moment

This repository contains Debian packaging files, build scripts and a GitHub Actions workflow for building a greenclip Debian package.

Usage

The build.sh script is meant to be called from within a docker/podman container because we want a clean environment to build in. An alternative approach would be to use pbuilder or sbuild which build the package in a chroot environment.

Docker:

docker run \
    --rm \
    -v $PWD:/build \
    -w /build \
    ubuntu:20.10 \
    bash build.sh

Creating a new release

Creating new releases via GitHub Actions is as simple as updating the changelog with:

dch --controlmaint --newversion 3.4-1 --distribution $(lsb_release -c -s) --urgency low

or with the shorter version:

dch -M -v 3.4-1 -D $(lsb_release -c -s) -u low

And then pushing the changes to GitHub.

The --controlmain/-M option will populate the new changelog entry with maintainer information from the debian/control file. Omit the flag if that is not desired.

IMPORTANT: Version numbers should always be in the following format: ${GREENCLIP_VERSION}-([1-9][0-9]*). This format is expected by the build script so that it can fetch the correct greenclip git tag.

TODOs

• Sign the packages produced by GitHub Actions
• Push the packages directly into a PPA instead of creating releases.