GitHub workflow to build and test on push or pull request

Only some Debian flavors are tested for now; other distros can be
easily added later.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+name: CI
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  test-debian-like:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        image:
+          - ubuntu:latest
+          - ubuntu:22.04
+          - debian:testing
+          - debian:stable
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: ${{ matrix.image }}
+    steps:
+      - name: install dependencies
+        run: |
+          apt-get update &&
+          apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+              automake \
+              build-essential \
+              ca-certificates \
+              git \
+              pkg-config \
+              python3 \
+              scdoc \
+              &&
+          {
+              # /usr/share/pkgconfig/systemd.pc was moved from the systemd
+              # package to a new systemd-dev package in systemd 253-2 (Debian 13
+              # (trixie) and later, Ubuntu 23.10 (mantic) and later).
+              apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends systemd-dev ||
+              apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends systemd
+          }
+        env:
+          DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # Fetch all commits and tags so that build-aux/git-version-gen can
+          # discover the version number.
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      # https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/1169
+      - name: fix git permissions
+        run: git config --system --add safe.directory $(pwd)
+      - name: autogen
+        run: ./autogen
+      - name: configure
+        run: ./configure
+      - name: check
+        run: make VERBOSE=1 AM_COLOR_TESTS=always check
+      - name: distcheck
+        run: make VERBOSE=1 AM_COLOR_TESTS=always distcheck
+      - name: distribution tarball is complete
+        run: ./.github/workflows/scripts/dist-tarball-check
+      - if: ${{ matrix.image == 'debian:testing' }}
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: distribution-tarball
+          path: keyd-*.tar.gz

.github/workflows/scripts/dist-tarball-check

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+pecho() { printf %s\\n "$*"; }
+log() { pecho "$@"; }
+warning() { log "::warning::$@"; }
+error() { log "::error::$@"; }
+fatal() { error "$@"; exit 1; }
+try() { "$@" || fatal "'$@' failed"; }
+
+dist_tarball=$(ls keyd-*.tar.gz) \
+    || fatal "'make dist' must be run before this test"
+
+tmpdir=$(try mktemp -d) || exit 1
+
+log "Copying contents of Git repository..."
+try git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-repo/ HEAD \
+    | try tar -C "${tmpdir}" -xv || exit 1
+(
+    try cd "${tmpdir}"/git-repo
+    # Delete files checked into Git that shouldn't be in the distribution
+    # tarball.
+    try rm -rf \
+        .gitattributes \
+        .github \
+        .gitignore \
+        ;
+) || exit 1
+
+log "Extracting distribution tarball..."
+try tar -C "${tmpdir}" -xvzf "${dist_tarball}"
+try mv "${tmpdir}/${dist_tarball%.tar.gz}" "${tmpdir}"/dist-tarball
+(
+    try cd "${tmpdir}"/dist-tarball
+    # Delete generated files
+    try rm -rf \
+        .dist-version \
+        Makefile.in \
+        aclocal.m4 \
+        autoconfig.h.in \
+        build-aux/compile \
+        build-aux/depcomp \
+        build-aux/install-sh \
+        build-aux/missing \
+        build-aux/test-driver \
+        configure \
+        ;
+) || exit 1
+
+log "Comparing Git repository with distribution tarball..."
+cd "${tmpdir}"
+diff -qNr git-repo dist-tarball >/dev/null || {
+    error "Unexpected diff between the repo and the distribution tarball."
+    error "You may need to add a file to EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am."
+    error "Diff output:"
+    diff -uNr git-repo dist-tarball \
+        | while IFS= read -r line; do error "${line}"; done
+    exit 1
+}
+log "No difference"

README.md

@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ If you wish to help maintain this PPA, please contact
   1. Download the desired tarball:
        * Releases can be found on the [releases
          page](https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd/releases).
+       * The current revision of the `master` branch (work-in-progress
+         development version) can be found at
+         <https://nightly.link/rvaiya/keyd/workflows/ci/master/distribution-tarball>.
+         Note that the distribution tarball is inside a zip file [due to an
+         unfortunate GitHub
+         limitation](https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact/issues/426).
 
   2. Extract the tarball and `cd` to the source code directory: