legoktm / gh-action-auto-dch

GitHub Action to generate Debian changelog entries

This Action automatically generates debian/changelog entries based off of Git metadata using dch.

Configuration

• fullname: Name to be used in changelog
• email: Email to be used in changelog
• distro: Distribution to build for (e.g. buster, focal). Any debian- or ubuntu- prefix will be stripped.

Version scheme

If the event is a tag push, the tag name will be the version, with the distro appended. E.g. 2.1.2~buster.

On normal commit pushes, the base version will be read from a meson.build if it exists, then the previous debian/changelog entry, otherwise falling back to 0.0.0. The git timestamp and hash will be appended, along with distro. E.g. 2.1.2+git202005272117.a2e10b9~buster.

The expectation is that the base version is from the previous release, so the package version is ahead of .

Example

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  build-deb:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix: 
        distro: [debian-buster, ubuntu-focal]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - uses: legoktm/gh-action-auto-dch@master
        with:
          fullname: First Last
          email: [e-mail]
          distro: ${{ matrix.distro }}

      - uses: legoktm/gh-action-build-deb@debian-buster
        if: matrix.distro == 'debian-buster'
        name: Build package for debian-buster
        id: build-debian-buster
        with:
          args: --no-sign

      - uses: legoktm/gh-action-build-deb@ubuntu-focal
        if: matrix.distro == 'ubuntu-focal'
        name: Build package for ubuntu-focal
        id: build-ubuntu-focal
        with:
          args: --no-sign

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: Packages for ${{ matrix.distro }}
          path: output

Related actions

• gh-action-build-deb build Debian packages.
• gh-action-dput uploads built packages to a PPA or repository.

License

Copyright © 2020 Kunal Mehta under the GPL, version 3 or any later version.