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mmstick / cargo-deb

A cargo subcommand that generates Debian packages from information in Cargo.toml
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Please add tips on how to add your package to Debian/Ubuntu repos #110

Open igor-petruk opened 5 years ago

igor-petruk commented 5 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for the tool, it is really easy to run "cargo deb" and get our deb files out. Some like me configured their CI to build deb files and publish them to GitHub Releases, statically linked with musl to work anywhere.

It would be great to extend a README/Wiki with some tutorial where to move next. This will really multiply the usefulness of this tool.

Documentation on Debian/Ubuntu is long and is optimized to be most generic and apply to all sorts of packages. It would be great to write a shorter guide on how to publish your Rust apps to popular distro repos, at least Debian/Ubuntu and maintain them there. I am sure with this tool the number of steps is much smaller and you don't need to handcraft so many files manually.

I don't know if authors of this tool have an experience maintaining Debian packages with cargo deb, if yes, please share your experience with us.

Thanks!

kornelski commented 5 years ago

This project can't be used to make a package for the official Debian/Ubuntu distribution, because it doesn't follow Debian's requirements to produce source packages first.

As for a simple guide how to make an unofficial APT repository from deb packages, I agree it'd be useful, but it could be done independently of this project.

igor-petruk commented 5 years ago

Yes, I've found this team https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf. One idea is to add the link clarifying the distinction.