Debian packages?

[melroy89]

I think Rio is great!

What about releasing official Debian and Ubuntu packages as well, to increase adoption?

Not all people will build from source or are willing to do so.

Regards,
Melroy

[raphamorim]

Hey there @melroy89 👋 thanks for the issue!

Yea, that would be awesome.

I confess that I have no idea about how to request/ask to add Rio in the official packages.

[melroy89]

I see. Well you could start with maybe configuring Cargo.toml by including [package.metadata.deb]?
https://medium.com/rust-programming-language/simplifying-debian-packaging-for-rust-a-step-by-step-guide-for-rust-developers-0457cdb3c81d

You could start with just providing a prebuild binary/prebuild deb file via the site or if you don't want that. You can also leverage GitHub Release with GitHub Actions to trigger a build.

This would also open-up alternative builds like maybe AppImage or alike.

[raphamorim]

Rio already does that https://github.com/raphamorim/rio/releases/tag/v0.1.17

The .deb files are included in the release files, however is only building .deb for amd64

[melroy89]

Rio already does that https://github.com/raphamorim/rio/releases/tag/v0.1.17

The .deb files are included in the release files, however is only building .deb for amd64

Owh! This isn't mentioned on https://raphamorim.io/rio/docs/install/linux/

[raphamorim]

Oh maybe should add the info then.

[raphamorim]

I submitted also a request to debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086142

[raphamorim]

Added the info on documentation https://raphamorim.io/rio/docs/install/linux/ and will add support for ARM architecture as well #746

Will close this issue for now, but let's keep track on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086142 :D

[melroy89]

Added the info on documentation https://raphamorim.io/rio/docs/install/linux/ and will add support for ARM architecture as well #746

Also nice work, I think this will help Debian/Ubuntu users at lot.