Please publish .deb packages to https://packages.microsoft.com/

[paulgear]

• Azure Data Studio Version:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/azure-data-studio/download-azure-data-studio?view=sql-server-linux-ver15#get-azure-data-studio-for-linux
2. Wonder why we have to separately install dependencies and download manually via https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/...

Preferred option:

• Packages published to master repository at https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/18.04/prod so that they're available with most other Microsoft packages.

Non-preferred, but good enough, option:

• Packages published to their own repository at https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azuredatastudio, like Teams & VS Code are. This is non-preferred because it requires yet another repository, but at least it wouldn't require manual installation of dependencies, and would upgrade automatically.

[jaapie]

While we wait for this to be implemented, I created a script that uses curl, and hxnormailze and hxselect from the html-xml-utils library to get the download link from the ADS download page, wget to download the .deb and dpkg to install it. You can find it in a gist here. Works on Ubuntu right now because that's what I am using.

[BorisWilhelms]

Yes, please publish to the Microsoft Repostiory.

I have create a similar script as @jaapie but without third party tools (beside curl). You can find it here

[LinusKardellInfobric]

This is the same as #2974