Debian package

[sharkAndshark]

Add deb package by cargo-deb

• add deb package metadata
• more research on systemd integration

To inspect the package:

# install cargo-deb dependices
sudo apt install dpkg
sudo apt install dpkg-dev
sudo apt install liblzma-dev

cargo install cargo-deb
cd martin
cargo deb
The Debian package will be created in `target/debian/martin_0.8.7_amd64.deb` . 

To decompress this package:

dpkg -x martin_0.8.7_amd64.deb path_of_decompress  

[nyurik]

i'm all for adding .deb support, thx!

A few things:

• do we really need to set up readme param? Per docs, readme param is already pointing to the readme file by default.
• does [package.metadata.deb] need to duplicate maintainer text, or can it simply reuse the main one?
• please add any needed targets to the jsonfile, probably similar to other ones that do a check first. Note that dependencies should be tested first, to avoid sudo without needing to do that.

[sharkAndshark]

Hi @nyurik Maybe we could keep these params?

readme issue

Without readme param, the content of readme in the decompressed package would be:

../README.md

maintainer parame

Without maintainer in [package.metadata.deb], there would be only one author based on the cargo-deb doc.
apt-cache show martin after dpkg -i without maintainer in [package.metadata.deb]

Package: martin
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Installed-Size: 14998
Maintainer: Stepan Kuzmin <to.stepan.kuzmin@gmail.com>
......

apt-cache show martin after dpkg -i with maintainer in in [package.metadata.deb]

Package: martin
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Installed-Size: 14998
Maintainer: Stepan Kuzmin <to.stepan.kuzmin@gmail.com>, Yuri Astrakhan <YuriAstrakhan@gmail.com>, MapLibre contributors
......

CI

You mentioned adding any necessary targets to the jsonfile, but I didn't find any such file in the repository. Did you mean to suggest updating the CI workflow to include publishing a deb package?

[nyurik]

@sharkAndshark I meant this file. Thx for explaining about the fields.

[sharkAndshark]

Hi @nyurik :)
By now, we could generate debian package in CI.yml or jsut debian-package.
But I think there are still some chaos in the code . Would you mind give some guide?

[nyurik]

thanks, looks really good, I think we are almost there, left a few comments

[nyurik]

almost there, a few tiny auto-fixes, and we can merge :)